How to use Python os module splitext() function In Python
This function splitext() splits the file path string into the file name and file extension into a pair of root and extension such that when both are added then we can retrieve the file path again (file_name + extension = path). This function is preferred use when the OS module is being used already.
Python3
import os# this will return a tuple of root and extensionsplit_tup = os.path.splitext('my_file.txt')print(split_tup)# extract the file name and extensionfile_name = split_tup[0]file_extension = split_tup[1]print("File Name: ", file_name)print("File Extension: ", file_extension) |
Output:
('my_file', '.txt')
File Name: my_file
File Extension: .txt
How to get file extension in Python?
In this article, we will cover How to extract file extensions using Python.