Extracting extension from filename in Python

Better Stack Team
Updated on February 3, 2023

You can use the os.path.splitext() function from the os.path module in Python to extract the file extension from a filename.

Here's an example:

 
import os
filename = "example.txt"
extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
print(extension)

This will output: .txt

Alternatively, you can use string slicing to extract the file extension.

 
import os
filename = "example.txt"
extension = filename[filename.index(".")+1:]
print(extension)

This will also output: .txt

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