max filename size

François Granger francois.granger at free.fr
Fri Mar 30 18:18:57 EST 2001


Voluciris <volucris at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there away to find the maximum filename length of the current os? On
> Windows it's 215 characters, but I don't want to hard code that in. It would
> be much more pythonic if it was portable.

You can go to the lowest common denominatore. If you target MacOS, it is
32. If you target DOS, it is 8.3 ;-)

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