Kalle Rutanen added the comment:
It seems to me that this problem can be fixed by replacing splitdrive with
splitunc at line 170 in ntpath.py.
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Python tracker
<http://bugs.python.org/issue15
Kalle Rutanen added the comment:
By inspecting the code for os.path.split() in ntpath.py, one sees that the
problem is actually in os.path.splitdrive(), which does not handle long-UNC
paths.
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Python tracker
<http://bugs.python.org/issue15
New submission from Kalle Rutanen:
On Windows, long-UNC paths are needed to inspect and modify paths with more
than 260 characters. The os.path.split() function behaves incorrectly in the
presence of a long-UNC prefix //?/ or \\?\. Consider iterating d =
os.path.split(d)[0] with d = '
