[Tutor] getting filen basename without extension

[Rolando Pereira]

Timmie wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to get the name of a file without it's extension/suffix.
> 
> What is the easiest and fastes way to get the basename
> of a file wihout extension?
> 
> What I found is this:
> import os
> myfile_name_with_path = 'path/to/my/testfile.txt'
> basename = os.path.basename(myfile_with_path)
> filename = os.path.splitext(basename)
> myfile_name_without_suffix = filename[0]
> 
> Can this be done with less code?
> 
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Timmie
> 
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I did something like this:

import os
path = 'path/to/file.ext'
filename = path.split(".")[0].split("/")[-1]
print filename
>>> file

The only problem I see is if the file has some "." character besides the
one before the extention.

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