On May 13, 5:31 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 13, 4:38 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I have trouble of obtaining the file size of a file because the > >>> fullpath exceeds 255 characters. I get this message with > >> At the DOS command level, you can do > >> subst x: very\long\path > >> and then refer to > >> x:filestem.ext > >> where x is any unused drive letter. > > Good idea. But subst does not see to work with path that has spaces. > > It gives "Incorrect number of parameters" > > If any DOS command-line argument includes spaces, you need to quote it. > > os.system(r'subst x: "c:\my big fat path\rab oof\etc etc etc"')
Yes, it works now. I am getting more on windows after coming a long way from Unix. Thanks a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
