Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes: > Actually, I've heard of code that dynamically falls back on short > names when paths using long names exceed the system limit for path > length (either 256 or 1024 IIRC). But short names pretty much require > consulting the filesystem, so we can probably ignore them.
The limit is 260 characters. But longer paths can be handled by prepending \\?\ and using the unicode APIs. see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#maxpath we have the following code to handle the above insanity: ,---- | def prepend_magic_win32(path): | assert isinstance(path, unicode), "path must be of type unicode" | | if path.startswith(u"\\\\"): | if path.startswith(u"\\\\?\\"): | return path | else: | return u"\\\\?\\UNC\\" + path[2:] | else: | return u"\\\\?\\" + path `---- -- Cheers Ralf _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
