chkFile with absolute paths

[bowlofred]

Most functions just assume that particular type will be sent in (it's always a list-like object or it's always a string).

You can ask the object if it's an instance of a string and otherwise assume you could iterate through it.

def show_strings(obj):
    if isinstance(obj, str):
        print(f"got the single string {obj}")
    else:
        for s in obj:
            print(f"One string in the collection is {s}")


show_strings("onestring")
print()
show_strings(("string1", "string2", "string3"))

Output:
got the single string onestring

One string in the collection is string1
One string in the collection is string2
One string in the collection is string3

I don't see any reason that it should work on local files and fail on files in /sys. Does it work for something like "/etc/passwd"? I don't have the file that you're concerned about on my system, so I don't know if it's special in some way.