os.path.isfile fails on path exactly 260 Chars long in Windows

[ubermidget2]

BPO	45013
Nosy	@pfmoore, @tjguk, @zware, @serhiy-storchaka, @eryksun, @zooba

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title = 'os.path.isfile fails on path exactly 260 Chars long in Windows'
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[ubermidget2]

I saw 33105, but believe this to be a different issue as path length 260 is valid.

I did testing by crafting a path that is exactly 260 by hand - A path 259 in length reports .isfile() as True.

[ubermidget2]

I saw 33105, but believe this to be a different issue as path length 260 is valid.

I did testing by crafting a path that is exactly 260 by hand - A path 259 in length reports .isfile() as True.

The Stack Error:
[WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified

[eryksun]

The legacy maximum buffer size is 260 characters, but remember that strings in C are terminated by a null character (i.e. "\0"). So the maximum path length is actually 259 characters when opening files.

In Windows 10 with Python 3.6+, you can enable the LongPathsEnabled system setting to extend the limit up to about 32760 characters. In many cases you can also use the "\\?\" extended-path prefix to access a long path (e.g. r"\?\C:\some\long\path"), but the path has to be fully qualified and can only use backslash as the separator, not forward slash.

[ubermidget2]

What an annoying edge case - makes sense that there isn't an easy fix.

The extended path prefix worked perfectly - thanks