Python path as a string

Question

I am specifying a relative file path using jacaro's path module.

How can I get the absolute path from this variable as a string?

import path # From https://github.com/jaraco/path.py

path = path.path('~/folder/')
relative_filename = path.joinpath('foo')
# how can I get the absolute path of as a string?
absolute_path = ???
fd = open(absolute_path)

What function needs a string? By total path do you mean the absolute path like /home/foo/myapp? Can you show an example? — munk
– munk, Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 1:46
Yes, by total path I mean absolute path. The function that needs a string is SFTPClient.open from paramiko module. Thank you for your answer. — Slot
– Slot, Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 1:55
So you need filename to be a string? As a side note, you're overriding the name path with path = path('~/folder/'). A better name would be folder_path = ... — munk
– munk, Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 3:00

munk · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-24 16:29:03Z

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filename has a method called abspath that returns an object with the absolute path. You can cast that to a string.

...
from path import Path
folder_path = Path('/home/munk/folder/')
filename = folder_path.joinpath('foo')
absolute_path = filename.abspath()
print(absolute_path)  #  '/home/munk/folder/foo'
f = open(absolute_path, 'r')

UPDATE 2023-03-24: Actually use abspath + use the up to date path library

edited Mar 24, 2023 at 16:29

answered Feb 3, 2014 at 3:05

munk

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3 Comments

micseydel Over a year ago

Calling str() seems weird to me, I might expect something like what repr() would produce. I would have expected an as_string attribute or something.

Peter Mortensen Over a year ago

But abspath is not used in the example(?).

Lei Yang Over a year ago

why do i only see .absolute() method?

J'e · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-19 19:20:25Z

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Python 3

from pathlib import Path

path = Path('~/folder/foo')
absolute_path = path.absolute().as_posix()

Python 2

import os

absolute_path = os.path.abspath('~/folder/foo').as_posix()

edited Oct 19, 2023 at 19:20

answered May 11, 2023 at 15:18

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zoltanctoth Over a year ago

pathlib.Path.absolute() doesn't return a string; it returns a PosixPath/WindowsPath object.

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