New submission from D Levine <levin...@gmail.com>:
Windows file paths are limited to 256 characters, and one of Windows's prescribed methods to address this is to prepend "\\?\" before a Windows absolute path (see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation) urllib.request.pathname2url raises an error on such paths as this function calls nturl2path.py's pathname2url function which explicitly checks that the number of characters before the ":" in a Windows path is precisely one, which is, of course, not the case if you are using an extended-length path (e.g. "\\?\C:\Python39"). As a result, urllib cannot handle pathname2url conversion for some valid Windows paths. ---------- components: Windows messages: 389415 nosy: levineds, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: urllib's request.pathname2url not compatible with extended-length Windows file paths type: crash versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43607> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
