[New-bugs-announce] [issue32539] os.listdir(...) on deep path on windows in python2.7 fails with errno 123

[Anthony Sottile]

New submission from Anthony Sottile <asottile at umich.edu>:

On windows, a deep path can be accessed by prefixing the path with \\?\

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#maxpath

The call to `listdir()` fails because it uses a posix separator.

A quick patch to fix this is to use `SEP` here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ab95b3074ee43098edf3f23b07fb18ef57ee614d/Modules/posixmodule.c#L2388 (I can submit a patch for this)

Here's a stacktrace

>>> os.listdir(r'\\?\C:\Temp')
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:\\Temp/*.*'


This works fine in python3, as the code has been refactored to use `SEP` already.

>>> os.listdir(r'\\?\C:\Temp')
[]

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 309862
nosy: Anthony Sottile, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.listdir(...) on deep path on windows in python2.7 fails with errno 123
versions: Python 2.7

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