windows and file names > 256 bytes

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015, at 09:35, Michael Torrie wrote:
> 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.

The byte versions of the underlying OS APIs use a 256-character buffer
to do conversion - he needs to also be passing unicode strings.