Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Working with paths

Now, we are going to learn about os.path(). It is used for path manipulations. In this section, we will look at some of the functions that the os module offers for pathnames.

Start the python3 console:

student@ubuntu:~$ python3Python 3.6.6 (default, Sep 12 2018, 18:26:19)[GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]] on linuxType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>

• os.path.absname(path): Returns the absolute version of your pathname.

>>> import os>>> os.path.abspath('sample.txt')'/home/student/work/sample.txt'

• os.path.dirname(path): Returns the directory name of your path.

>>> os.path.dirname('/home/student/work/sample.txt')'/home/student/work'

• os.path.basename(path): Returns ...