>> Also, my first attempt at this did a recursive copy creating subdirs in >> dirs as it copied. It would crash everytime it went 85 subdirs deep. >> This is an NTFS filesystem. Would this limitation be in the filesystem >> or Python? > > see the "Max File Name Length" on this page (random google link) > for an explanation: > > http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
also: print len(os.path.join("c:\\scratch", *map(str, range(85)))) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list