Your browser (all browsers I suppose) not sends full file path to
server for security reasons!
If  client and server are on the same machine you can develop a webpy
class that browses the filesystem
and get the full file path.

On 18 Gen, 14:08, Roman Yakovenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all. The following issue is not strictly related to web.py, but
> may be some of you will have an idea.
>
> I am developing browser based desktop-like application and using
> web.py as my web server. Right now, the server and the client should
> run on the same machine. As an input to my application, the user
> should specify few files, the server should proceed. For many reasons,
> I could not copy (upload) the files to the server.
>
> I am looking for functionality similar to <input type="file"/> tag,
> but instead of uploading a file or returning its partial name, I need
> to get full file path.
>
> From what I saw on the web, I cant tweak the tag, via JavaScript. Can
> you advice on an alternative? It almost impossible to use my
> application, without this "convenience" functionality.
>
> Thanks.
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