Allow abspath_expanduser_unicode to optionally produce paths without the long-path...

[tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git] / src / allmydata / util / fileutil.py

diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
index 152cae0bb82860844dbbb77fe567a54d74332352..5fc35c0561d9d02889d1f15c60dfb32b7c7ca0c0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
@@ -279,17 +279,18 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-def abspath_expanduser_unicode(path, base=None):
+def abspath_expanduser_unicode(path, base=None, long_path=True):
     """
     Return the absolute version of a path. If 'base' is given and 'path' is relative,
     the path will be expanded relative to 'base'.
     'path' must be a Unicode string. 'base', if given, must be a Unicode string
     corresponding to an absolute path as returned by a previous call to
     abspath_expanduser_unicode.
+    On Windows, the result will be a long path unless long_path is given as False.
     """
     if not isinstance(path, unicode):
         raise AssertionError("paths must be Unicode strings")
-    if base is not None:
+    if base is not None and long_path:
         precondition_abspath(base)
 
     path = expanduser(path)
@@ -316,7 +317,7 @@ def abspath_expanduser_unicode(path, base=None):
     # there is always at least one Unicode path component.
     path = os.path.normpath(path)
 
-    if sys.platform == "win32":
+    if sys.platform == "win32" and long_path:
         path = to_windows_long_path(path)
 
     return path