How to get absolute path of a pathlib.Path object?

Question

Making a path object with pathlib module like:

p = pathlib.Path(\'file.txt\')

The p object will point to some file in

Answer 1

You're looking for the method .absolute, if my understanding is correct, whose documentation states:

>>> print(p.absolute.__doc__)
Return an absolute version of this path.  This function works
        even if the path doesn't point to anything.

        No normalization is done, i.e. all '.' and '..' will be kept along.
        Use resolve() to get the canonical path to a file.

With a test file on my system this returns:

>>> p = pathlib.Path('testfile')
>>> p.absolute()
PosixPath('/home/jim/testfile')

This method seems to be a new, and still, undocumented addition to Path and Path inheritting objects.

Created an issue to document this.