diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index 4f2939d4bef2..d6ab16518034 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ def __len__(self):
 def img2label_paths(img_paths):
     # Define label paths as a function of image paths
     sa, sb = os.sep + 'images' + os.sep, os.sep + 'labels' + os.sep  # /images/, /labels/ substrings
-    return [x.replace(sa, sb, 1).replace('.' + x.split('.')[-1], '.txt') for x in img_paths]
+    return ['txt'.join(x.replace(sa, sb, 1).rsplit(x.split('.')[-1], 1)) for x in img_paths]
 
 
 class LoadImagesAndLabels(Dataset):  # for training/testing