Amaury Forgeot d'Arc [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Running help() or mktemp() causes _getfullpathname to be called
with the whole system path (791 characters)
I am not sure to understand. Do you mean the whole PATH environment
variable? I doubt that it is passed to _getfullpathname.
Jason Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
I am not sure to understand. Do you mean the whole PATH environment
variable? I doubt that it is passed to _getfullpathname.
Or do you have very long paths for one directory? the TEMP environment
variable, for example? I'd be curious to see its
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
I don't have it offhand, but it was the whole PATH environment
variable, complete with semicolons. That's probably the *real* bug.
Indeed. Do you happen to have the complete traceback of the failing
tempfile.mktemp() call? I don't see
Jason Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Indeed. Do you happen to have the complete traceback of the failing
tempfile.mktemp() call? I don't see where it can use the PATH
environment variable.
The problem was that somehow, on our systems, the TEMP environmental variable
had been
New submission from Jason Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On my system (Windows Server 2008 SP1 - 64-bit, Python 2.5.2 - 32-bit),
simple actions like:
help(help) # Or any function
or
import tempfile
f = tempfile.mktemp()
result in this (rather confusing) error:
TypeError: _getfullpathname() argument 1
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
The (buffer overflow) message indicates that the argument is too long to
be converted. In your case, it seems that the path is longer than
MAX_PATH=255 characters. What is the value of the argument of
_getfullpathname()?
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Jason Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Running help() or mktemp() causes _getfullpathname to be called with the whole
system path (791 characters). If you pass that to _getfullpathname as str it
throws the aforementioned TypeError. If it's passed as unicode, it returns an
empty
Hirokazu Yamamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364963.aspx,
current implementation have several problems.
In the ANSI version of this function, the name is limited to MAX_PATH
characters. To extend this limit to 32,767 wide
