removing extension

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On Apr 27, 5:34 pm, wilson <wilson.t.thomp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> i was trying to convert all images in a folder to another type and
> save the new images in a separate folder.for that i wrote a class and
> coded some part
>
> class ConvertImgs:
>         def __init__(self,infldr,outfldr):
>                 if os.path.isdir(infldr):
>                         self.infldr=infldr
>                         self.outfldr=outfldr
>                 else:
>                         print "no such folder,exits program"
>                         exit(1)
>                 if not os.path.isdir(self.outfldr):
>                         os.mkdir(self.outfldr)
>                         print "made:",self.outfldr
>
>                 for x in os.listdir(infldr):
> self.origlist=[os.path.normpath(os.path.join(self.infldr,x)) for x in
> os.listdir(infldr)]
>
> ...
> the self.origlist  returns a list of filenames in infolder.I would
> like to get them as 'C:\\myimages\\imageone'  instead of 'C:\\myimages\
> \imageone.jpg' sothat i can add a diff extension to all those strings
> in the list and save in diff format(ie change 'C:\\myimages\\imageone'
> to 'C:\\myimages\\imageone.gif ' and save in gif format).but i don't
> know how to remove those extension from the namestring ..can someone
> help?
> W

I don't know if this is the simplest way, but you can use re module.

import re
pat = re.compile(r'(.*?)\..*')
name = pat.search('C:\\myimages\\imageone.jpg').group(1)
print name