Relative paths in Python

Question

I\'m building a simple helper script for work that will copy a couple of template files in our code base to the current directory. I don\'t, however, have the absolute path

Answer 1

summary of the most important commands

>>> import os
>>> os.path.join('/home/user/tmp', 'subfolder')
'/home/user/tmp/subfolder'
>>> os.path.normpath('/home/user/tmp/../test/..')
'/home/user'
>>> os.path.relpath('/home/user/tmp', '/home/user')
'tmp'
>>> os.path.isabs('/home/user/tmp')
True
>>> os.path.isabs('/tmp')
True
>>> os.path.isabs('tmp')
False
>>> os.path.isabs('./../tmp')
False
>>> os.path.realpath('/home/user/tmp/../test/..') # follows symbolic links
'/home/user'

A detailed description is found in the docs. These are linux paths. Windows should work analogous.