Lad wrote:
> Hello,
> what is a way to get the the extension of a filename from the path?
> E.g., on my XP windows the path can be
> C:\Pictures\MyDocs\test.txt
> and I would like to get
> the the extension of the filename, that is here
> txt
>
>
> I would like that to work on Linux also
> Thank you for help
> L.
Like this, you mean?
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.splitext("c:\\pictures\\mydocs\\test.txt")
('c:\\pictures\\mydocs\\test', '.txt')
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