v1.5.0

By using the short path version of a file, we can
manage to move long paths to the trash.

Limitations:
1/ If the final short path is longer than what
    `SHFileOperationW` can handle, it will fail
2/ Still not able to trash long path from another
    drive, ie: trying to delete C:\temp\foo.txt
    while the script is running from D:\trash.py

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version 1.5.0 -- 2018/02/16
+---------------------------
+
+* More specific error when failing to create XDG fallback trash directory (#20)
+* Windows: Workaround for long paths (#23)
+
 Version 1.4.2 -- 2017/11/17
 ---------------------------
 

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1 +1 @@
-include CHANGES.rst
+include CHANGES.rst LICENSE

README.rst

@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ Usage
 >>> from send2trash import send2trash
 >>> send2trash('some_file')
 
-When there's a problem ``OSError`` is raised.
+On Freedesktop platforms (Linux, BSD, etc.), you may not be able to efficiently
+trash some files. In these cases, an exception ``send2trash.TrashPermissionError``
+is raised, so that the application can handle this case. This inherits from
+``PermissionError`` (``OSError`` on Python 2). Specifically, this affects
+files on a different device to the user's home directory, where the root of the
+device does not have a ``.Trash`` directory, and we don't have permission to
+create a ``.Trash-$UID`` directory.
+
+For any other problem, ``OSError`` is raised.
 
 .. _PyGObject: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject
 .. _GIO: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/

send2trash/__init__.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 import sys
 
+from .exceptions import TrashPermissionError
+
 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
     from .plat_osx import send2trash
 elif sys.platform == 'win32':

send2trash/exceptions.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import errno
+from .compat import PY3
+
+if PY3:
+    _permission_error = PermissionError
+else:
+    _permission_error = OSError
+
+class TrashPermissionError(_permission_error):
+    """A permission error specific to a trash directory.
+
+    Raising this error indicates that permissions prevent us efficiently
+    trashing a file, although we might still have permission to delete it.
+    This is *not* used when permissions prevent removing the file itself:
+    that will be raised as a regular PermissionError (OSError on Python 2).
+
+    Application code that catches this may try to simply delete the file,
+    or prompt the user to decide, or (on Freedesktop platforms), move it to
+    'home trash' as a fallback. This last option probably involves copying the
+    data between partitions, devices, or network drives, so we don't do it as
+    a fallback.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, filename):
+        _permission_error.__init__(self, errno.EACCES, "Permission denied",
+                                   filename)

send2trash/plat_gio.py

@@ -5,10 +5,15 @@
 # http://www.hardcoded.net/licenses/bsd_license
 
 from gi.repository import GObject, Gio
+from .exceptions import TrashPermissionError
 
 def send2trash(path):
     try:
         f = Gio.File.new_for_path(path)
         f.trash(cancellable=None)
     except GObject.GError as e:
+        if e.code == Gio.IOErrorEnum.NOT_SUPPORTED:
+            # We get here if we can't create a trash directory on the same
+            # device. I don't know if other errors can result in NOT_SUPPORTED.
+            raise TrashPermissionError('')
         raise OSError(e.message)

send2trash/plat_other.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import errno
 import sys
 import os
 import os.path as op
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ except ImportError:
     from urllib import quote
 
 from .compat import text_type, environb
+from .exceptions import TrashPermissionError
 
 try:
     fsencode = os.fsencode   # Python 3
@@ -134,9 +136,13 @@ def find_ext_volume_global_trash(volume_root):
 def find_ext_volume_fallback_trash(volume_root):
     # from [2] Trash directories (1) create a .Trash-$uid dir.
     trash_dir = op.join(volume_root, TOPDIR_FALLBACK)
-    # Try to make the directory, if we can't the OSError exception will escape
+    # Try to make the directory, if we lack permission, raise TrashPermissionError
-    # be thrown out of send2trash.
+    try:
-    check_create(trash_dir)
+        check_create(trash_dir)
+    except OSError as e:
+        if e.errno == errno.EACCES:
+            raise TrashPermissionError(e.filename)
+        raise
     return trash_dir
 
 def find_ext_volume_trash(volume_root):

send2trash/plat_win.py

@@ -7,15 +7,19 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from ctypes import (windll, Structure, byref, c_uint,
-                    create_unicode_buffer, sizeof, addressof)
+                    create_unicode_buffer, addressof)
 from ctypes.wintypes import HWND, UINT, LPCWSTR, BOOL
 import os.path as op
 
 from .compat import text_type
 
+kernel32 = windll.kernel32
+GetShortPathNameW = kernel32.GetShortPathNameW
+
 shell32 = windll.shell32
 SHFileOperationW = shell32.SHFileOperationW
 
+
 class SHFILEOPSTRUCTW(Structure):
     _fields_ = [
         ("hwnd", HWND),
@@ -28,6 +32,7 @@ class SHFILEOPSTRUCTW(Structure):
         ("lpszProgressTitle", LPCWSTR),
         ]
 
+
 FO_MOVE = 1
 FO_COPY = 2
 FO_DELETE = 3
@@ -39,11 +44,22 @@ FOF_NOCONFIRMATION = 16
 FOF_ALLOWUNDO = 64
 FOF_NOERRORUI = 1024
 
+
+def get_short_path_name(long_name):
+    if not long_name.startswith('\\\\?\\'):
+        long_name = '\\\\?\\' + long_name
+    buf_size = GetShortPathNameW(long_name, None, 0)
+    output = create_unicode_buffer(buf_size)
+    GetShortPathNameW(long_name, output, buf_size)
+    return output.value[4:]  # Remove '\\?\' for SHFileOperationW
+
+
 def send2trash(path):
     if not isinstance(path, text_type):
         path = text_type(path, 'mbcs')
     if not op.isabs(path):
         path = op.abspath(path)
+    path = get_short_path_name(path)
     fileop = SHFILEOPSTRUCTW()
     fileop.hwnd = 0
     fileop.wFunc = FO_DELETE
@@ -51,7 +67,7 @@ def send2trash(path):
     # Starting in python 3.6.3 it is no longer possible to use:
     # LPCWSTR(path + '\0') directly as embedded null characters are no longer
     # allowed in strings
-    # Workaround 
+    # Workaround
     #  - create buffer of c_wchar[] (LPCWSTR is based on this type)
     #  - buffer is two c_wchar characters longer (double null terminator)
     #  - cast the address of the buffer to a LPCWSTR

setup.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst', 'rt').read() + '\n\n' + open('CHANGES.rst'
 
 setup(
     name='Send2Trash',
-    version='1.4.2',
+    version='1.5.0',
     author='Virgil Dupras',
     author_email='hsoft@hardcoded.net',
     packages=['send2trash'],

tests/test_plat_win.py

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+from os import path as op
+from tempfile import gettempdir
+
+from send2trash import send2trash as s2t
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform != 'win32', 'Windows only')
+class TestLongPath(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        filename = 'A' * 100
+        self.dirname = '\\\\?\\' + os.path.join(gettempdir(), filename)
+        self.file = os.path.join(
+            self.dirname,
+            filename,
+            filename,  # From there, the path is not trashable from Explorer
+            filename,
+            filename + '.txt')
+        self._create_tree(self.file)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        try:
+            os.remove(self.dirname)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
+    def _create_tree(self, path):
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(path)
+        if not os.path.isdir(dirname):
+            os.makedirs(dirname)
+        with open(path, 'w') as writer:
+            writer.write('Looong filename!')
+
+    def test_trash_file(self):
+        s2t(self.file)
+        self.assertFalse(op.exists(self.file))
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        op.splitdrive(os.getcwd())[0] != op.splitdrive(gettempdir())[0],
+        'Cannot trash long path from other drive')
+    def test_trash_folder(self):
+        s2t(self.dirname)
+        self.assertFalse(op.exists(self.dirname))