On 2008-06-27, cesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I need to retrieve the content of some files which are placed on a
network drive so in order to open them I need the full path to the
file.
Unfortunately some times the path is longer than 256 characters and in
Windows such a path is too long with the result that the file is not
found (though it is there).
Is there any way around this?
It's not clear from your description whether this applies, but there is
an API to obtain the short version of a Windows path:
http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/win32api__GetShortPathName_meth.html
(NB this is obviously the pywin32 project; I'm simply hosting a copy
of the docs).
Also, on more recent versions of the NT family, you can map drive
letters to deep paths, you can do something like this:
NET USE * \\server\share\path1\path2\path3\path4
and then do things with x:\path5\path6\ etc.
And you may find that passing a version of the filename
as in the example below will bypass the limit anyway. Note that
this uses the \\?\ prefix.
<code>
contents = open (ur"\\?\c:\some\really\long\path").read ()
</code>
TJG
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