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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def abspath(raw):
 """Return what is hopefully a OS independent path."""

    path_bits = []
    if raw.find('/') != -1:
        path_bits = raw.split('/')
    elif raw.find('\\') != -1:
        path_bits = raw.split('\\')
    else:
        path_bits = [raw]

    return os.path.abspath(os.sep.join(path_bits))