On 25/06/2015 13:04, Joonas Liik wrote: > It sounds to me more like it is possible to use long file names on windows > but it is a pain and in python, on windows it is basically impossible.
Certainly not impossible: you could write your own wrapper function: def extended_path(p): return r"\\?\%s" % os.path.abspath(p) where you knew that there was a possibility of long paths and that an absolute path would work. TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list