cf.abspath

cf.abspath(filename)[source]

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.

See also

cf.dirname, cf.pathjoin, cf.relpath

Examples: 
>>> import os
>>> os.getcwd()
'/data/archive'
>>> 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'