Remove unnecessary use of pywin32 for loading Windows folder

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/appdirs.py b/appdirs.py
index 975e9bf..4cd0083 100644
--- a/appdirs.py
+++ b/appdirs.py
@@ -484,33 +484,6 @@ def _get_win_folder_from_registry(csidl_name):
     return dir
 
 
-def _get_win_folder_with_pywin32(csidl_name):
-    from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
-    dir = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, getattr(shellcon, csidl_name), 0, 0)
-    # Try to make this a unicode path because SHGetFolderPath does
-    # not return unicode strings when there is unicode data in the
-    # path.
-    try:
-        dir = unicode(dir)
-
-        # Downgrade to short path name if have highbit chars. See
-        # <http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=85099>.
-        has_high_char = False
-        for c in dir:
-            if ord(c) > 255:
-                has_high_char = True
-                break
-        if has_high_char:
-            try:
-                import win32api
-                dir = win32api.GetShortPathName(dir)
-            except ImportError:
-                pass
-    except UnicodeError:
-        pass
-    return dir
-
-
 def _get_win_folder_with_ctypes(csidl_name):
     import ctypes
 
@@ -565,18 +538,14 @@ def _get_win_folder_with_jna(csidl_name):
 
 if system == "win32":
     try:
-        import win32com.shell
-        _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_pywin32
+        from ctypes import windll
+        _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_ctypes
     except ImportError:
         try:
-            from ctypes import windll
-            _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_ctypes
+            import com.sun.jna
+            _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_jna
         except ImportError:
-            try:
-                import com.sun.jna
-                _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_jna
-            except ImportError:
-                _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_from_registry
+            _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_from_registry
 
 
 #---- self test code