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Simon Wong
519 PointsNeed help with filesystems challenge task 2 of 2.
This question is not to clear to me as I cannot check what the path of the current working directory is... therefore i'm not sure how i'm suppose to complete this challenge.
import os
def absolute(path, root):
os.path.isabs("projects/python_basics/", "/")
1 Answer
Chris Jones
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 23,933 PointsHi Simon!
You don't need to know what the working directory is. The person calling your function will pass a directory in. isabs is able to tell if the path parameter that is passed to it is absolute or not based on whether it starts with a forward slash or back slash (depending on the operating system) (https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.isabs).
That said, you've gotten a good start to the challenge. isabs only takes one parameter, the path string, and returns a boolean. Based on whether true or false is returned, you may need to prepend the root parameter to the path parameter before the function returns anything.
I hope that helps some! Let me know if you have any more questions!