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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 __get_path(path):
 """Gets the path to the file."""

    if not os.path.isabs(path):
        path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)

    return os.path.normpath(path)