[New-bugs-announce] [issue13234] os.listdir breaks with literal paths

[Manuel de la Pena]

New submission from Manuel de la Pena <manuel at canonical.com>:

During the development of an application that needed to write paths longer than 260 chars we opted to use \\?\ as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath.

When working with literal paths the following the os.listdir funtion would return the following trace:

>>> import os
>>> test = r'\\?\C:\Python27'
>>> os.listdir(test)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: '\\\\?\\C:\\Python27/*.*'

The reason for this is that the implementation of listdir appends '/' at the end of the path if os.path.sep is not present at the end of it which FindFirstFile does not like. This is a inconsistency from the OS but it can be easily fixed (see attached patch).

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components: Library (Lib)
files: listdir.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 146031
nosy: mandel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.listdir breaks with literal paths
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23482/listdir.patch

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