How to replace (or strip) an extension from a filename in Python?

Question

Is there a built-in function in Python that would replace (or remove, whatever) the extension of a filename (if it has one) ?

Example:

print replace_         


        

Answer 1

Try os.path.splitext it should do what you want.

import os
print os.path.splitext('/home/user/somefile.txt')[0]+'.jpg'