Python Program to Get the File Name From the File Path

To understand this example, you should have the knowledge of the following Python programming topics:


Example 1: Using os module

Output

file

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

Output

('file', '.ext')

Example 2: Using Path module

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.