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Author vstinner
Recipients Voo, brian.curtin, ezio.melotti, loewis, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tim.golden, vstinner
Date 2013-06-12.16:33:18
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> The problem is that we never prepend "\\?\" to the pathname hence getting the old MAX_PATH limit.

I would not call this a "problem". In my opinion, it is a bug in Windows: I don't understand why we should preprend something to support longer path.

I'm not sure that low-level APIs (functions of the os module) should workaround this Windows limitation. An higher level API like pathlib may prepend "\\?\" prefix to support longer path.

pathlib: PEP 428 and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib/
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2013-06-12 16:33:18vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, loewis, pitrou, tim.golden, ezio.melotti, brian.curtin, Voo, serhiy.storchaka
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