More elegant way to cwd?

[M.E.Farmer]

Peter Hansen wrote:
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> Other than using os.pardir instead of '..', and possibly adding
> an "os.path.abspath()" call to the last bit (or does realpath
> already do that?  It's unclear from the docs)
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I believe os.path.abspath and os.path.realpath are the same.
realpath is just an alias for abspath.
Using pydoc on os gives this:

py>realpath = abspath(path)
py>    Return the absolute version of a path

M.E.Farmer