Reputation: 25
I am creating a program in which I need to separate the file name and the file extension of a fle. The way i am doing this is by using
os.path.splitext('')
I was simply wondering if anybody knows how I could save the two parts of the file as two variables.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 4678
Reputation: 85622
os.path.splitext()
returns a tuple:
>>> import os
>>> name_parts = os.path.splitext('data.txt')
>>> name_parts
('data', '.txt')
You can take it apart:
>>> body, ext = name_parts
Now:
>>> body
'data'
and:
>>> ext
'.txt'
You can do this in one step:
>>> body, ext = os.path.splitext('data.txt')
This is called tuple unpacking.
For example:
>>> a = 1
>>> b = 2
You can swap their values with:
>>> a, b = b, a
You can also place parenthesis around. It is not necessary but may help to understand what is going on:
>>> (a, b) = (b, a)
Upvotes: 6