How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

Question

How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

For instance, if I had "/path/to/some/file.txt", I would want "

Answer 1

@IceAdor's refers to rsplit in a comment to @user2902201's solution. rsplit is the simplest solution that supports multiple periods.

Here it is spelt out:

file = 'my.report.txt'
print file.rsplit('.', 1)[0]

my.report