How to delete everything after a certain character in a string?

Question

How would I delete everything after a certain character of a string in python? For example I have a string containing a file path and some extra characters. How would I delete e

Answer 1

str.partition:

>>> s='abc.zip.blech'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.zip'
>>> s='abc.zip'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.zip'
>>> s='abc.py'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.py'