On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Alex Kleider <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a function that can return the full path name when provided with
> something along the lines of
> "../../myfile"?
>
> Just to be able to glean the current working directory would suffice. (I
> could use a shell command if I had to but was hoping it could be done all
> within Python.
os.path.abspath() should be able to do it. See:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.abspath
http://www.diveintopython.net/functional_programming/finding_the_path.html
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