Python: Get an absolute file path
Python Basic: Exercise-63 with Solution
Write a Python program to get an absolute file path.
Sample Solution-1:
Python Code:
def absolute_file_path(path_fname):
import os
return os.path.abspath('path_fname')
print("Absolute file path: ",absolute_file_path("test.txt"))
Sample Output:
Absolute file path: /home/students/path_fname
Flowchart:

Visualize Python code execution:
The following tool visualize what the computer is doing step-by-step as it executes the said program:
Sample Solution-2:
Python Code:
from pathlib import Path
p = Path("main.py").resolve()
print(p)
Sample Output:
/tmp/sessions/9f576d81597fd882/main.py
Python Code Editor:
Have another way to solve this solution? Contribute your code (and comments) through Disqus.
Previous: Write a Python program to convert all units of time into seconds.
Next: Write a Python program to get file creation and modification date/times.
What is the difficulty level of this exercise?
Test your Programming skills with w3resource's quiz.
Python: Tips of the Day
Decompose a collection:
Assume we have a function that returns a tuple of two values and we want to assign each value to a separate variable. One way is to use indexing as below:
abc = (5, 10) x = abc[0] y = abc[1] print(x, y)
Output:
5 10
There is a better option that allows us to do the same operation in one line.
x, y = abc print(x, y)
Output:
5 10
It can be extended to a tuple with more than 2 values or some other data structures such as lists or sets.
x, y, z = {1, 2, 3} print(x, y, z) x, y, z = ['a', 'b', 'c'] print(x, y, z)
Output:
1 2 3 a b c
- Weekly Trends
- Java Basic Programming Exercises
- SQL Subqueries
- Adventureworks Database Exercises
- C# Sharp Basic Exercises
- SQL COUNT() with distinct
- JavaScript String Exercises
- JavaScript HTML Form Validation
- Java Collection Exercises
- SQL COUNT() function
- SQL Inner Join
- JavaScript functions Exercises
- Python Tutorial
- Python Array Exercises
- SQL Cross Join
- C# Sharp Array Exercises