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This tutorial will demonstrate various ways to get the file name without extension from a file path in Python. Suppose our goal is to get the file name from a list of file paths that are in the form of strings, such as from the path Desktop/folder/myfile.txt, we get only .txtthe file name without the extension myfile.

pathlib.path().stemGet the file name without extension from path using method in Python

path().stemThe method takes a file path as input and returns the file name by extracting it from the file path. For example, from the path Desktop/folder/myfile.txt, it will return the file without .txtthe extension myfile.

The following code example demonstrates how to use path().stemto get the file name without the file extension from a file path.

from pathlib import Path

file_path = "Desktop/folder/myfile.txt"
file_name = Path(file_path).stem
print(file_name)

Output:

myfile

Get the file name without extension from a path using the os.path.splitext()and methods in Pythonstring.split()

osThe module's path.splitext()method takes a file path as a string input and returns the file path and file extension as output.

Since we want to get the file name from the file path, we can first use os.path.splitext()the method to remove the file extension from the file path. The first element of the split result is the file path without the extension. This result is /further split using as a separator. The last element is the file name without the extension. The following code example demonstrates how to use the path.splitext()and string.split()methods to get the file name without the extension from the file path.

import os

file_path = "Desktop/folder/myfile.txt"

file_path = os.path.splitext(file_path)[0]
file_name = file_path.split("/")[-1]
print(file_name)

Output:

test

Get the file name from the path using the os.path.basename()and methods in Pythonos.path.splitext()

In Python, osthe module's path.basename()basename method takes a file path as input and returns the basename extracted from the file path. For example, Desktop/folder/myfile.txtthe basename of is myfile.txt.

Since we want to get the file name from the file path, we can use path.basename()the method to extract the base name and use to path.splitext()extract the file name. The following code example demonstrates how to use the path.basename()and path.splitext()methods to get the file name from a file path.

import os

file_path = "Desktop/folder/myfile.txt"

basename = os.path.basename(file_path)
file_name = os.path.splitext(basename)[0]
print(file_name)

Output:

myfile

Assume that we need to Desktop/folder/myfile.tar.gzget the file name without .the part after from the path , such as myfileinstead of myfile.tar, we can use string.index()the method myfile.tarto extract only from myfile. However, the disadvantage of this method is that if .is part of the file name, for example my.file.tar.gz, it will return myas the file name.

Below is an example of the code, how we can use remove from string.index()the output of the method explained above .myfile.tar.tar

file_name = "myfile.tar"
index = file_name.index(".")
file_name = file_name[:index]
print(file_name)

file_name = "my.file.tar"
index = file_name.index(".")
file_name = file_name[:index]
print(file_name)

Output:

myfile
my