Bugs item #542314, was opened at 2002-04-10 21:23
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Category: Windows
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: long file name support broken in windows
Initial Comment:
>From c.l.py, thread ""
Peter D:
I'm using windows and trying to call os.path.getmtime
() after using os.path.walk... However, I'm choking
with "[Errno 38] Filename too long" on paths with len
> ~260
Adding Martin's reply in a new comment (so it is not
at the top of each and every mail I get on this bug :)
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Comment By: Stuart Norton (stunorton)
Date: 2005-03-30 08:54
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I came across this suggestion while googling... and I would
have expected it to work, but this code:
import os
os.chdir("\\ussvs-file02
\radpubs\wip\zStaging\translation\D10
\previous_test\cumulative\Common\Reference\API\Borland
.Eco.Persistence.Configuration\classes\PersistenceMapper
DefinitionCollection\Methods")
for filename in os.listdir("."):
print filename
infile = file(filename)
gives me
C:\Documents and
Settings\snorton\Desktop\h2build\buildtools>test.py
PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.AddRange.xml
PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.Assign.xml
PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.FindByName.xml
PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.NameExists.xml
PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.PersistenceMapperDefi
nitionCollection.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and
Settings\snorton\Desktop\h2build\buildtools\test.py", line 6,
in ?
infile = file(filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or
directory: 'PersistenceMapperDefinitionCollection.Persistence
MapperDefinitionCollection.xml'
... funny that the file with the long path comes up in listdir()
but isn't found with file()...
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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2002-04-10 21:26
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Martin v. Loewis's reply on c.l.py:
Since you are asking for a work-around: cd into one of the
more nested directories when the path gets longer
(os.chdir), and use relative paths from then on.
If you want to study how to solve the problem: the relevant
code snippet is in Modules/posixmodule.c
/* the library call can blow up if the file name is
too long! */
if (pathlen > MAX_PATH) {
PyMem_Free(pathfree);
errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
return posix_error();
}
There might be different ways to approach this:
- challenge the correctness of the comment:
- try to establish why the author of that code
thought that the C library could blow up
- analyse whether these arguments are still true
with the current compiler version
-or-
- prove the argument wrong by analysing the source
code of the C library
- then remove the constraint
-or-
- use different API to achieve the same effect without
suffering from the constraint.
I'm serious about these suggestions: users would appreciate
if this gets fixed somehow - apparently, the system allows
longer file names, and apparently, the system itself can
deal with that quite well. This
can be only true if the system either doesn't use its C
library, or if the C library does not have this restriction.
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