Getting absolute path

Question

In the django tutorials the guy explains edit the setup.py with the following:

os.chdir(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(__file__), os.pardir)))

Why do I need normpath here? Wouldn't it suffice to only use dirname?:

os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))

See this http://stackoverflow.com/a/51523/4385913 or [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17730173/python-cant-get-full-path-name-of-file) — Skizo-ozᴉʞS ツ, Feb 13 '15 at 09:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '15 at 09:26

Have a look in the documentation:

os.path.normpath(path)

Normalize a pathname by collapsing redundant separators and up-level references so that A//B, A/B/, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B. This string manipulation may change the meaning of a path that contains symbolic links. On Windows, it converts forward slashes to backward slashes. To normalize case, use normcase().

Getting absolute path

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