Benefits of os.path.splitext over regular .split?

Question

In this other question, the votes clearly show that the os.path.splitext function is preferred over the simple .split(\'.\')[-1] string manipulatio

Answer 1

The first and most obvious difference is that the split call has no logic in it to default when there is no extension.

This can also be accomplished by a regex, in order to get it to behave as a 1 liner without extra includes, but still return, empty string if the extension isn't there.

Also, the path library can handle different contexts for paths having different seperators for folders.