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2010-06-16T23:17:20-07:00roopeshvhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4174204/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577270-dealing-with-directory-paths-with/
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Python
recipe 577270
by <a href="/recipes/users/4174204/">roopeshv</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/expanding/">expanding</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/paths/">paths</a>).
Revision 2.
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<p>Dealing with directory paths which start with <code>~</code> which are passed as paramaters, to <code>os</code> module functions.</p>
<p>Here is what I think python doesn't do for me:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>>>> import os
# suppose my home = curdir = /home/rv
>>> os.path.abspath('.')
'/home/rv'
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<p>Now if I want to go to folder <code>/home/rv/test</code> if there is no folder by name
/home/rv/~/test/</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code># This is what happens by default.
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'/home/rv/~/test'
>>> os.chdir('/home/rv/some/dir')
# doesn't matter if the resulting path exists or not.
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'home/rv/some/dir/~/test'
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<p>This would be more sensible I guess:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code># if /home/rv/~/test doesn't exist
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'/home/rv/test'
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