How to resolve relative paths in python?

Question

I have Directory structure like this

projectfolder/fold1/fold2/fold3/script.py

now I\'m giving script.py a path as commandline argument of a fi

Answer 1

For Python3, you can use pathlib's resolve functionality to resolve symlinks and .. components.

You need to have a Path object however it is very simple to do convert between str and Path.

I recommend for anyone using Python3 to drop os.path and its messy long function names and stick to pathlib Path objects.