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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(*path):
 """A method to determine absolute path for a given relative path to the directory where this setup.py script is located"""

    setup_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    return os.path.join(setup_dir, *path)