removing extension

[Matt Nordhoff]

Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> More simply, use the rsplit() method of strings:
> 
>>>> path = r'C:\myimages\imageone.jpg'
>>>> path.rsplit('.', 1)
> ['C:\\myimages\\imageone', 'jpg']
> 
> 
>>>> path = r"C:\blahblah.blah\images.20.jpg"
>>>> path.rsplit('.', 1)
> ['C:\\blahblah.blah\\images.20', 'jpg']
> 
> HTH

There's os.path.splitext(), which probably does just about exactly that.
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