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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 absSymPath(path):
 """like os.path.abspath except it doesn't dereference symlinks """

    curr_path = os.getcwd()
    return os.path.normpath(os.path.join(curr_path, path))