windows and file names > 256 bytes

[Michael Torrie]

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.