Hamilton, William wrote: > There's also short filename substitution. "C:\Documents and Settings\foo" > can be replaced with "C:\docume~1\foo". In general, you take the first six > non-space characters and append "~<digit>" to it. I've never run into a > situation where <digit> was anything other than 1, but I'm pretty sure that > you increment it if you have multiple files/directorys in the same directory > that have the same first six non-space characters. This should work on any > Windows long-filename system where you need 8.3 filenames for backwards > compatibility.
Rather than trying to second-guess, you can ask Windows itself to tell you what the short name is for a given long name: <code> import win32api path_name = "C:\Documents and Settings\goldent" print win32api.GetShortPathName (path_name) </code> (and, yes, there is a corresponding GetLongPathName with an additional Unicode version GetLongPathNameW) TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
