Long paths in Python on Windows

Question

I have a problem when programming in Python running under Windows. I need to work with file paths, that are longer than 256 or whatsathelimit characters. Now, I\'ve read ba

Answer 1

py 3.8.2

# Fix long path access:
import ntpath
ntpath.realpath = ntpath.abspath
# Fix long path access.

In my case, this solved the problem of running a script from a long path. (https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python) But this is not a universal fix. It looks like the ntpath.realpath implementation has problems. This code replaced it with a dummy.