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:

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Answer 1

Handling multiple extensions

In the case where you have multiple extensions this one-liner using pathlib and str.replace works a treat:

Remove/strip extensions

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> p = Path("/path/to/myfile.tar.gz")
>>> str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), "")
'/path/to/myfile'

Replace extensions

>>> p = Path("/path/to/myfile.tar.gz")
>>> new_ext = ".jpg"
>>> str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), new_ext)
'/path/to/myfile.jpg'

If you also want a pathlib object output then you can obviously wrap the line in Path()

>>> Path(str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), ""))
PosixPath('/path/to/myfile')

Wrapping it all up in a function

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Union

PathLike = Union[str, Path]


def replace_ext(path: PathLike, new_ext: str = "") -> Path:
    extensions = "".join(Path(path).suffixes)
    return Path(str(p).replace(extensions, new_ext))


p = Path("/path/to/myfile.tar.gz")
new_ext = ".jpg"

assert replace_ext(p, new_ext) == Path('/path/to/myfile.jpg')
assert replace_ext(str(p), new_ext) == Path('/path/to/myfile.jpg')
assert replace_ext(p) == Path('/path/to/myfile')