Modify validate_paths to work outside docker #403
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What is the purpose of this PR?
The current validate_paths function assumes that the user is within the docker and all paths are prefixed with /data. However, as we start to use these functions elsewhere and pip install the library, we don't want this assumption to necessarily be true.
How did you implement your changes
I've modified this function to give the option of dropping the /data prefix requirement, and updated all calls to validate_paths which are outside of a jupyter notebook to use this new logic.