How to check if a path is absolute path or relative path in a cross-platform way with Python?

>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath("mydir/myfile.txt")
"C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt"

Also works if it is already an absolute path:

>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath("C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt")
"C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt"

os.path.isabs returns True if the path is absolute, False if not. The documentation says it works in windows (I can confirm it works in Linux personally).

os.path.isabs(my_path)

You should use urlparse.urljoin :

>>> import urlparse
>>> urlparse.urljoin(url1, url2)
"http://127.0.0.1/test1/test4/test6.xml"

With Python 3 (where urlparse is renamed to urllib.parse) you could use it as follow:

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.urljoin(url1, url2)
"http://127.0.0.1/test1/test4/test6.xml"

Thanks for explaining! I was stuck with How to check if a path is absolute path or relative path in a cross-platform way with Python? for some hours, finally got it done 🤗. Checked yesterday, it works!

Thanks for explaining! I was stuck with How to check if a path is absolute path or relative path in a cross-platform way with Python? for some hours, finally got it done 🤗. Checked yesterday, it works!

Simply put and clear. Thank you for sharing. How to check if a path is absolute path or relative path in a cross-platform way with Python? and other issues with absolute was always my weak point 😁. Checked yesterday, it works!