On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:08:27 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > Well, "basename" is the name proposed for the "part before the
> > extension". "name" is the full filename.
> >
> > (so path.name == path.basename + path.ext)
>
> Is it? You said yourself it was easily confused with os.path.basename()'s result.

True, but since we already have the name attribute it stands reasonable
for basename to mean something else than name :-)
Do you have another suggestion?

It appears "base name" or "base" is the convention for the part before the extension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

Perhaps os.path.basename should be deprecated in favor of a better named function one day. But that's probably for a different thread.