codekingpro/portable-devtools

1from __future__ import annotations2 3 4def get_short_path_name(long_name):5    """Gets the short path name of a given long path - http://stackoverflow.com/a/23598461/200291."""6    import ctypes  # noqa: PLC04157    from ctypes import wintypes  # noqa: PLC04158 9    _GetShortPathNameW = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetShortPathNameW  # noqa: N80610    _GetShortPathNameW.argtypes = [wintypes.LPCWSTR, wintypes.LPWSTR, wintypes.DWORD]11    _GetShortPathNameW.restype = wintypes.DWORD12    output_buf_size = 013    while True:14        output_buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(output_buf_size)15        needed = _GetShortPathNameW(long_name, output_buf, output_buf_size)16        if output_buf_size >= needed:17            return output_buf.value18        output_buf_size = needed19 20 21__all__ = [22    "get_short_path_name",23]24