Short form of file names

[Skip Montanaro]

    Mikhail> Is there some Python module for converting Windows long paths
    Mikhail> to short form, i.e. 8.3? os.path.normpath() does not do this..

Try importing dospath directly:

    >>> import dospath
    >>> dospath.normpath("/supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.py")
    '\\supercal.py'

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