How to get string before hyphen

Question

I have below filename:

pagecounts-20150802-000000

I want to extract the date out of above 20150802 I am using the below code but its not working:

print os.path.splitext("pagecounts-20150802-000000")[0]

Answer 1

The methods in os.path are mainly used for path string manipulation. You want to use string splitting:

print 'pagecounts-20150802-000000'.split('-')[1]