how to find out exact path of file using python?

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how to find exact path of file in python.? This is very basic. But i am new to python

if my filename is file.txt

 path = "D:\\Utilities\\folder\\python\\model\\file.txt

how to get the exact path by giving only the filename?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51520/how-to-get-an-absolute-file-path-in-python — Farhadix, Jul 24 '14 at 20:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 20:57

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Look into the os.path module, specifically abspath(path), which:

return[s] a normalized absolutized version of the pathname path.

answered Jul 24 '14 at 20:57

jmduke

if i use os.path.abspath("file.txt") I got only D:\\file.txt. not full path – gokul Jul 24 '14 at 21:02
At that point you're passing a string to abspath and it's building the path based on your current working directory (presumably `D:\\`). You need to either run the code in the same directory as `file.txt` or be more specific in your relative path. – jmduke Jul 24 '14 at 21:06

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