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Returning a file path in Django without the file extension

class Video(models.Model):

    file = models.FileField(upload_to = user_video_folder)

    owner = models.ForeignKey(User)

    video_title = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    video_caption = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True)

    date_added = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    date_updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __unicode__(self):

    return self.video_title

       

def ViewAllVideos(request):

    videos = Video.objects.filter(owner = request.user)

    template = 'site/media-videos.html'

    return render_to_response(template, {'videos': videos}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

       

<video width="900" height="506" preload="" controls="" autoplay="">

    <source src="{{ STATIC_URL }}{{ video.file }}.mp4" type="video/mp4;">

    <source src="{{ STATIC_URL }}{{ video.file }}.ogg" type="video/ogg;">

    <source src="{{ STATIC_URL }}{{ video.file }}.webm" type="video/webm;">

    <object width="900" height="506" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/foo/bar/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.5.swf">

        <param name="movie" value="/foo/bar/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.5.swf"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true">

        <param value="config={"clip": {"url": "{{ STATIC_URL }}{{ video.file }}.flv", "autoPlay":false, "autoBuffering":true}}" name="flashvars">

    </object>

</video>

       

def ViewAllVideos(request):

    videos = Video.objects.filter(owner = request.user)

    filenames = [os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(video.file))[0]

        for video in videos]

    context = {

        'videos': videos,

        'filenames': filenames,}

    template = 'site/media-videos.html'

    return render_to_response(template, context, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

       

def file_minus_extension(self):

    basename, extension = os.path.splitext(self.file.url)

    return basename

       

def filename_minus_extension(self):

    basename, extension = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(self.file.name))

    return basename

       

os.path.splitext('file.ext')[0]  # Will return just 'file'

       

filenames = [os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(video.file))[0]

             for video in vides]

...

context = {'videos': videos,

           'filenames': filenames,

          }

return render_to_response(template, context, ...)