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Python Python for File Systems Navigation Absolutely

Posted by ian mays
ian mays
5,214 Points

I'm not getting the right values for some of the paths and I'm not sure why.

It's unclear to me if I'm writing a function from scratch or if I'm supposed to use some of the functions from the OS module to help the function along.

absolute.py 
import os

def absolute(path_string, root_string):
    if root_string != "/":
        root_string = "/"
    if path_string.startswith('/'):
        return path_string
    if not path_string.startswith('/'): 
        return root_string + path_string

1 Answer

Kevin Esther
Kevin Esther
8,551 Points
Kevin Esther
Kevin Esther
8,551 Points

Hi Ian,

The function you have written would pass I think if you make sure that you are returning a string to a new variable.

if you try adding the below code to what you have already written see if this passes.

path_1 = str(absolute("projects/python_basics/", "/"))
path_2 = str(absolute("/home/kenneth/django", "C:\\"))

print(path_1)
print(path_2)
print(type(path_1))
print(type(path_2))

Think the idea was to use the os.path.isabs() method however as with python there are many ways to do one thing.