Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:
> I'm wary of trying to return it without the prefix. Me too, but suddenly adding "\\?\" to the paths breaks a lot of assumptions. > We would need a function that's shared with the proposed implementation of > realpath() to determine whether the given path (not the final path) is safe > to return as a normal DOS or UNC path. My idea was to GetFinalPathName(path[4:])[4:] and if that fails, don't strip the prefix. Which is obviously not be perfect, but since we're not going to add a check for the LongPathsEnabled flag (let alone any of the other edge cases), we can't easily figure out whether it's safe to return manually. I really want a fix for this in 3.8, or else os.stat(sys.executable) may fail, but I don't think changing the result of readlink() is okay at this stage. Maybe I'll leave that out for now and just take the st_reparse_tag and stat() changes? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37834> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
