Resolve cross-platform network paths from local mapped mounts

resolve_network_path.py

import logging
import os
import pathlib
import socket

def resolve_network_path(local_path, strict=True):
    """ 
    Resolve cross-platform network paths from local mapped mounts
    Args:
        - local_path (str): local path to resolve
        - strict (bool): return None for unresolvable path or re-return local_path
    
    """
    
    abspath = pathlib.Path(local_path).resolve()

    try:
        
        # First two segments will be leading slashes
        path_segs = str(abspath).split(os.path.sep)
        ip = path_segs[2]

        hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)[0]
        
    except IndexError or socket.gaierror as e:
        
        error_msg = f"Path is not a network location or IP unresolvable\n{e}"
        
        if strict:
            logging.error(error_msg)
            return None
        
        else:
            logging.debug(error_msg)
            return local_path
    else:
          
        # Substitute hostname
        path_segs[2] = hostname
        return os.path.sep.join(path_segs)
    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    
    answer = input("Enter a network drive path:\n")
    resolve_network_path(answer, strict=True)