Extracting extension from filename in Python

Is there a function to extract the extension from a filename?

Thanks all! That's what I needed!

From stackoverflow

• Yes. use os.path.splitext.

  >>> import os
  >>> basename, extension = os.path.splitext('/path/to/somefile.ext')
  >>> basename
  '/path/to/somefile'
  >>> extension
  '.ext'
  

• import os.path
  extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
  

  nosklo : +1: I use this when I don't want the basename