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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 convert_path(path):
 """ Convert path to a normalized format """

    if os.path.isabs(path):
        raise Exception("Cannot include file with absolute path {}. Please use relative path instead".format((path)))

    path = os.path.normpath(path)

    return path