On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: >> Are there any times when you *don't* want Windows to use the >> extended-length path? > > Yes: when you're passing a relative filepath. Which could pretty much be > any time. As you might imagine, this has come up before -- there's an > issue on the tracker for it somewhere. I just don't think it's simple > enough for Python to know when and when not to use the extended path > syntax without danger of breaking something.
Oh blah. So I suppose that means there's fundamentally no way to use a long (>256 byte) relative path on Windows? > Bear in mind that the \\?\ prefix doesn't just extend the length: it > also allows otherwise special-cased characters such as "." or "..". It's > a general-purpose mechanism for handing something straight to the file > system without parsing it first. Ohh. So... hmm. So what this really means is that a path could get \\?\ prepended when, and ONLY when, it becomes absolute. Windows can be a real pest... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
