How to get the extension of a filename from the path

[Tom Anderson]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Lad wrote:

> 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

You want os.path.splitext:

>>> import os
>>> os.path.splitext("C:\Pictures\MyDocs\test.txt")
('C:\\Pictures\\MyDocs\test', '.txt')
>>> os.path.splitext("C:\Pictures\MyDocs\test.txt")[1]
'.txt'
>>>

> I would like that to work on Linux also

It'll be fine.

tom

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