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I'd like to construct an absolute path in python, while at the same time staying fairly oblivious of things like path-separator. edit0: for instance there is a directory on the root of my filesystem <code>/etc/init.d</code> (or <code>C:\etc\init.d</code> on w32), and I want to construct this only from the elements <code>etc</code> and <code>init.d</code> (on w32, I probably also need a disk-ID, like <code>C:</code>) In order to not having to worry about path-separators, <code>os.join.path()</code> is obviously the tool of choice. But it seems that this will only ever create relative paths: <pre><code> print "MYPATH:", os.path.join('etc', 'init.d') MYPATH: etc/init.d </code></pre> Adding a dummy first-element (e.g. <code>''</code>) doesn't help anything: <pre><code> print "MYPATH:", os.path.join('', 'etc', 'init.d') MYPATH: etc/init.d </code></pre> Making the first element absolute obviously helps, but this kind of defeats the idea of using <code>os.path.join()</code> <pre><code> print "MYPATH:", os.path.join('/etc', 'init.d') MYPATH: /etc/init.d </code></pre> edit1: using <code>os.path.abspath()</code> will only try to convert a relative path into an absolute path. e.g. consider running the following in the working directory <code>/home/foo</code>: <pre><code> print "MYPATH:", os.path.abspath(os.path.join('etc', 'init.d')) MYPATH: /home/foo/etc/init.d </code></pre> So, what is the standard cross-platform way to "root" a path? <pre><code> root = ??? # <-- print "MYPATH:", os.path.join(root, 'etc', 'init.d') MYPATH: /etc/init.d </code></pre> edit2: the question really boils down to: since the leading slash in <code>/etc/init.d</code> makes this path an absolute path, is there a way to construct this leading slash programmatically? (I do not want to make assumptions that a leading slash indicates an absolute path)
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