How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

Question

How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

For instance, if I had "/path/to/some/file.txt", I would want "

Answer 1

the easiest way to resolve this is to

import ntpath 
print('Base name is ',ntpath.basename('/path/to/the/file/'))

this saves you time and computation cost.