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

The other methods don't remove multiple extensions. Some also have problems with filenames that don't have extensions. This snippet deals with both instances and works in both Python 2 and 3. It grabs the basename from the path, splits the value on dots, and returns the first one which is the initial part of the filename.

import os

def get_filename_without_extension(file_path):
    file_basename = os.path.basename(file_path)
    filename_without_extension = file_basename.split('.')[0]
    return filename_without_extension

Here's a set of examples to run:

example_paths = [
    "FileName", 
    "./FileName",
    "../../FileName",
    "FileName.txt", 
    "./FileName.txt.zip.asc",
    "/path/to/some/FileName",
    "/path/to/some/FileName.txt",
    "/path/to/some/FileName.txt.zip.asc"
]

for example_path in example_paths:
    print(get_filename_without_extension(example_path))

In every case, the value printed is:

FileName