def check_path(prompt):
    ''' (str) -> str
    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.
    '''
    abs_path = raw_input(prompt)
    while path.exists(abs_path) != True:
        print "\nThe specified path does not exist.\n"
        abs_path = raw_input(prompt)
    return abs_path
 (str) -> str
    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.
    
recipes/Python/578858_Convert_doc_docx_files/recipe-578858.py