def get_short_path_name(long_name): """ Gets the short path name of a given long path. http://stackoverflow.com/a/23598461/200291 """ import ctypes from ctypes import wintypes _GetShortPathNameW = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetShortPathNameW # noqa: N806 _GetShortPathNameW.argtypes = [wintypes.LPCWSTR, wintypes.LPWSTR, wintypes.DWORD] _GetShortPathNameW.restype = wintypes.DWORD output_buf_size = 0 while True: output_buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(output_buf_size) needed = _GetShortPathNameW(long_name, output_buf, output_buf_size) if output_buf_size >= needed: return output_buf.value else: output_buf_size = needed __all__ = [ "get_short_path_name", ]