How to get the extension of a filename from the path

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Lad wrote:

> Hello,
> what is a way to get the the extension of  a filename from the path?
> E.g., on my XP windows the path can be
> C:\Pictures\MyDocs\test.txt
> and I would like to get
> the the extension of  the filename, that is here
> txt
> 
> 
> I would like that to work on Linux also
> Thank you for  help
> L.

Like this, you mean?
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.splitext("c:\\pictures\\mydocs\\test.txt")
('c:\\pictures\\mydocs\\test', '.txt')

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Dale Strickland-Clark
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