From 973c1b34b7e3234fdbaadfe26102201e8e5f8be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Cheung <bccheung@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:52:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Simplified parsing as path

---
 jacquard/api.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jacquard/api.py b/jacquard/api.py
index 3ea0f21..5643a16 100644
--- a/jacquard/api.py
+++ b/jacquard/api.py
@@ -129,10 +129,7 @@ def as_path(self, parent=None, check_exist=False):
                 JacquardTypeError: If the value cannot be resolved to Path
             """
             fp = Path(self.as_str()) if parent is None else (Path(parent) / Path(self.as_str()))
-            if check_exist:
-                if not fp.exists():
-                    raise FileNotFoundError('File `%s` not found' % fp.as_posix())
-            return fp
+            return fp.resolve(strict=check_exist)
 
     def as_set(self, sub_type=None):
         """Converts the value to a set.