youtube-dl

commit: 5f58165def551921741b44772c9bf31a237a4ac8
parent bd4e40df1aaef96dcde64dd64793b5152ae66055
Author: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:43:48 +0700

[extractor/common] Fix dumping requests with long file abspath on Windows

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
6
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1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
             raw_filename = basen + '.dump'
             filename = sanitize_filename(raw_filename, restricted=True)
             self.to_screen('Saving request to ' + filename)
+            # Working around MAX_PATH limitation on Windows (see
+            # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx)
+            if os.name == 'nt':
+                absfilepath = os.path.abspath(filename)
+                if len(absfilepath) > 259:
+                    filename = '\\\\?\\' + absfilepath
             with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
                 outf.write(webpage_bytes)