Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
The legacy maximum buffer size is 260 characters, but remember that strings in C are terminated by a null character (i.e. "\0"). So the maximum path length is actually 259 characters when opening files. In Windows 10 with Python 3.6+, you can enable the `LongPathsEnabled` system setting to extend the limit up to about 32760 characters. In many cases you can also use the "\\\\?\\" extended-path prefix to access a long path (e.g. r"\\?\C:\some\long\path"), but the path has to be fully qualified and can only use backslash as the separator, not forward slash. ---------- components: +Windows nosy: +eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45013> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
