I have a Python script (but it could be as well a batch script) that receives filenames as input and I was able to make it work with drag and drop, retrieving the filenames arguments from sys.argv, but I suddenly discovered that I cannot drop more than a about 100 files (the number is variable depending of filenames length I guess) due to the Windows 10 shell limitations. It's not rare to have a few thousands files inside a folder, so I need a way to pass so many filenames at once to the script.
I would like to avoid to add a full interface to my short Python script just to select many files at once. How can I overcome those Windows 10 limitations?
There must be some way, since I'm able to select and send without problems (at least) 15000 files to "7Zip -> Add to archive" context menu or to "SendTo -> Compress folder" context menu (using context menu for my script would be a perfect solution).
Here is a test Python script:
# real script requires the activation of a specific Conda environment
import sys
print(sys.argv)
To allow drag and drop on this Python script I created a file link to the script. The "Destination" field of the file link, on which I drop the selected files, is:
C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat <environment> && C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda3\envs\<environment>\python.exe "<drive>\<path>\my_python_script.py"
Follow up
I found out that dropping files on the window of an opened application, instead of on a script, does not have the limitation on number of files, and this let me solve my original problem (here an example). However, I still hope that a solution to overcome the limitation on number of files dropped on a script can be found, as it would still be very useful for batch files.
