> Taking a wild guess, I think that you are using a Samba share on a Linux > > server. A file "FILENAME.xml;" was accidentally creating on this share > > from the Linux filesystem layer, since Linux will allow you to use > > semicolons in file names. But samba enforces the same restrictions as > > Windows, so when you access the file system through sambda, it gives an > > error when you try to create a new file "FILENAME.sub;". > > This is a wild guess, and could be completely wrong. Please come back and > > tell us the solution when you have solved it.
So, let me report the solution. All the files were in an afs filesystem. afs has a limit for the total length of the filenames per directory. for more details take a look at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/topten.html#Tip13 In my case 10k files with ~160characters per filename were just hitting the limit. The error message is basically misleading. Makis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
