On 25/06/2015 14:35, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 06/25/2015 06:34 AM, Tim Golden wrote: >> 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. > > The OP mentions that even when he manually supplies extended paths, > os.mkdir, os.getsize, and shutil.rmtree return errors for him in Python > 2.7. So there's more to this problem. >
He's probably not passing unicode strings: the extended path only works for unicode string. For 3.x that's what you do by default. TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
