def check_path(prompt):
    ''' (str) -> str
    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.
    '''
    abs_path = input(prompt)
    while path.exists(abs_path) != True:
        print ("\nThe specified path does not exist.\n")
        abs_path = input(prompt)
    return abs_path
 (str) -> str
    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.
    
recipes/Python/579080_Convert_doc_docx_files/recipe-579080.py