Recipe 577270 revision 1

import os

# i am big on absolute paths, so i made it return an absolute path
# also that makes the results clearer.
def full_path(dir_):
    if dir_[0] == '~' and not os.path.exists(dir_):
        dir_ = os.path.expanduser(dir_)
    return os.path.abspath(dir_)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print os.path.abspath('~/test') # returns /home/rv/~/test if it exists or else it outputs /home/rv/test

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