Python Program to Get the File Name From the File Path

Example 1: Using os module

import os

# file name with extension
file_name = os.path.basename('/root/file.ext')

# file name without extension
print(os.path.splitext(file_name)[0])

Output

file

basename() gives the name of the last file/folder of the path, whereas splitext() splits the file name into filename and extension.

import os

print(os.path.splitext(file_name))

Output

('file', '.ext')

Example 2: Using Path module

from pathlib import Path

print(Path('/root/file.ext').stem)

Output

file

Using stem attribute of Path module, the file name can be extracted as shown above.

It works for python 3.4 and above.