Remove a part of a path separated with dots

Question

Given a path, e.g.

file_path = 'a.b.c.d.e'

I wish to remove the e.
This is what I did:

class_path = ('.').join(file_path.split('.')[0:-1])

Any more elegant way to do it?

Answer 1

import os
os.path.splitext(file_path)[0]