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How to clean and normalize a file path to remove redundant elements using the path package?

To clean and normalize a file path using the path package in Python, you can follow these steps:

  1. Import the Path class from the pathlib module:
from pathlib import Path
  1. Create a Path object with the file path you want to clean:
path = Path("your/file/path")
  1. Use the resolve() method to remove any symbolic links or relative elements in the path and return the absolute path:
normalized_path = path.resolve()
  1. (Optional) If you want to convert the normalized path to a string, you can use the str() function:
normalized_path_str = str(normalized_path)

Here's the complete code together:

from pathlib import Path path = Path("your/file/path") normalized_path = path.resolve() normalized_path_str = str(normalized_path)

Now you have a cleaned and normalized file path stored in the normalized_path_str variable.