remove extension from filename python code example

Example 1: how to get just the filename in python

import os
>>> base=os.path.basename('/root/dir/sub/file.ext')
>>> base
'file.ext'
>>> os.path.splitext(base)
('file', '.ext')
>>> os.path.splitext(base)[0]
'file'

Example 2: python delete file with extension

import os

dir_name = "/Users/ben/downloads/"
test = os.listdir(dir_name)

for item in test:
    if item.endswith(".zip"):
        os.remove(os.path.join(dir_name, item))

Example 3: python code to remove file extension

import os
print os.path.splitext("sample.txt")[0]

Example 4: file base name and extension python

from pathlib import Path

Path('/root/dir/sub/file.ext').stem