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How can I check whether two file paths point to the same file in Python?
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Use abspath() to Get the Absolute Path in Python To get the absolute path using this module, call path. abspath() with the given path to get the absolute path. The output of the abspath() function will return a string value of the absolute path relative to the current working directory.
You can determine the absolute path of any file in Windows by right-clicking a file and then clicking Properties. In the file properties first look at the "Location:" which is the path to the file.
To get current file's full path, you can use the os. path. abspath function. If you want only the directory path, you can call os.
First, you have to import the os module in Python so you can run operating system functionalities in your code. Then you create the variable absolute_path which fetches the current directory relative to the root folder. This is the full path to your working directory, in this case, ~/home/projects/example-project/ .
$ touch foo
$ ln -s foo bar
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> help(os.path.samefile)
Help on function samefile in module posixpath:
samefile(f1, f2)
Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file
>>> os.path.samefile("foo", "bar")
True
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