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+import os
+from typing import Union, Tuple
+
+
+def get_path_pieces(orig_path: str) -> Tuple[str, Union[str, None], Union[str, None]]:
+    """Retrieves path pieces.  This is a naive approach as it determines if a file is present based on the
+    presence of an extension.
+    Args:
+        orig_path:  The original path to deconstruct.
+
+    Returns: A tuple of directory, filename and extension.  If no extension is present, filename and extension are None.
+
+    """
+
+    potential_parent_dir, orig_file = os.path.split(orig_path)
+    filename, file_extension = os.path.splitext(orig_file)
+
+    if file_extension is None or len(file_extension) < 1:
+        return orig_path, None, None
+    else:
+        return potential_parent_dir, filename, file_extension
+
+
+def get_new_path(orig_path: str, new_filename: str) -> str:
+    """Obtains a new path.  This tries to determine if the provided path is a directory or filename (has an
+    extension containing '.') then constructs the new path with the old parent directory and the new filename.
+
+    Args:
+        orig_path (str): The original path.
+        new_filename (str): The new filename to use.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The new path.
+    """
+
+    parent_dir, filename, ext = get_path_pieces(orig_path)
+    return os.path.join(parent_dir, new_filename)
+
+
+# For use with creating csv filenames for entries that have been omitted.
+OMITTED_ADDITION = '-omitted'
+
+
+def get_filename_addition(orig_path: str, filename_addition: str) -> str:
+    """Gets filename with addition.  So if item is '/path/name.ext' and the filename_addition is '-add', the new result
+    would be '/path/name-add.ext'.
+
+    Args:
+        orig_path (str): The original path.
+        filename_addition (str): The new addition.
+
+    Returns: The altered path.
+
+    """
+    parent_dir, filename, extension = get_path_pieces(orig_path)
+    if filename is None:
+        return orig_path + filename_addition
+    else:
+        ext = '' if extension is None else extension
+        return os.path.join(parent_dir, '{0}{1}.{2}'.format(filename, filename_addition, ext))