cf.abspath

cf.abspath(filename)

Return a normalized absolute version of a file name.

If a string containing URL is provided then it is returned unchanged.

Parameters :

filename : str

The name of the file.

Returns :

out : str

The normalized absolutized version of filename.

Examples

>>> cf.abspath('file.nc')
'/data/archive/file.nc'
>>> cf.abspath('..//archive///file.nc')
'/data/archive/file.nc'
>>> cf.abspath('http://data/archive/file.nc')
'http://data/archive/file.nc'