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| Subject | Re: windows and file names > 256 bytes |
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| From | Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> |
| Date | 2015-06-25 13:34 +0100 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.61.1435235680.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 25/06/2015 13:04, Joonas Liik wrote:
> It sounds to me more like it is possible to use long file names on windows
> but it is a pain and in python, on windows it is basically impossible.
Certainly not impossible: you could write your own wrapper function:
def extended_path(p):
return r"\\?\%s" % os.path.abspath(p)
where you knew that there was a possibility of long paths and that an
absolute path would work.
TJG
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Re: windows and file names > 256 bytes Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-06-25 13:34 +0100
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