[Python-ideas] os.path.abspath - optional startdir argument
Wolfgang Maier
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Thu Jul 24 17:30:58 CEST 2014
On 24.07.2014 17:21, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Wolfgang Maier
> <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de
> <mailto:wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de>>
> wrote:
>
> os.path.normpath(os.path.join(__os.getcwd(),path)).
>
> However, I'd find it useful, occasionally, to be able to specify a
> starting directory other than the current working directory.
>
>
> os.path.normpath(os.path.join(config_dir, path))
>
As I said, I'm aware of this, but it's ugly and even uglier if you have
to turn config_dir into an absolute path itself.
> Better yet, use the pathlib module.
>
As it stands, the pathlib module is only provisional plus, IMO, kind of
overkill for a simple task like that.
> Cheers,
> Juancarlo *Añez*
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