title: How to get full path of current directory in Python2.7 in Windows?
body: <p>I tried some of the answers to the existing post "How to get full path of current directory in Python?".
  I'm using Python 2.7 on Windows.
  If my full path is "c:\alpha\beta\gamma", i get only "gamma" and not the full path. How should I coax python on windows not to swallow the prefix?</p>