[issue4071] ntpath.abspath can fail on Win Server 2008 (64-bit)

[Jason Day]

Jason Day <jason.day at bluetechllc.com> 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 string.
The offending _getfullpathname call occurs on the first call to one of these methods. Future calls to either do not call it (unless, of course, the first failed).

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