Windows: open() -> "[Errno 38] Filename too long"

[Tim Golden]

robert wrote:
> When doing open/os.stat/...(dirpath+filename)
> and total path > 250 chars then
> 
> OSError: "[Errno 38] Filename too long"
> 
> is there a way to access the file without changing to that directory 
> (its in a thread and a fast iteration of many file too) ?

Change filename 

  r"c:\temp\long.txt"

to

  ur"\\?\c:\temp\long.txt"


TJG