file names longer than MAX_PATH under Windows 2003

Sergey s323 at mail.ru
Wed Feb 15 10:40:54 EST 2006


"Tim Golden" <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.1900.1139925147.27775.python-list at python.org...
[Sergey]

>I see from another post that CreateFile cannot open your file.
>That puts it further away from Python, although it doesn't
>explain how some other program can see the files. Can you use
>os.startfile (or its equivalent win32api.ShellExecute from
>pywin32)? Perhaps if you were to chdir to the directory in
>question you'd be able to access the file.

I found error in filename (extra backslash) and now I can open file.
But another trouble appeared: I cannot listdir so long name.
I examined posixmodule.c... There are wcsncpy with hard limit of MAX_PATH*2+5.
So... RIP, my module...





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