New submission from Manuel de la Pena <man...@canonical.com>: Local literal paths are those paths that do use the \\?\ that allows to have paths longer that the MAX_PATH set by Windows (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#short_vs._long_names).
While UNC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29) paths should not be normalized, local paths that do use the \\?\ prefix should so that developers that use such a trink to allow longer paths on windows do not have to wrapp the call in the following way: LONG_PATH_PREFIX = '\\?\' path = path.replace(LONG_PATH_PREFIX, '') result = LONG_PATH_PREFIX + os.path.normpath(path) The possible solution would be for the normalization to work and return the path normalized with the prefix added. ---------- components: Windows files: literal-normpath.patch hgrepos: 141 keywords: patch messages: 164909 nosy: mandel priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: normpath does not work with local literal paths versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26307/literal-normpath.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15286> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
