Problem in accessing long paths.

[venutaurus539 at gmail.com]

On Mar 6, 7:09 pm, "Tim Golden" <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> venutaurus... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >             I have a requirement where I've to access folders with
> > path lengths >255 ( Windows only supports 255). To do this I've
> > created junction points for the folders whose length is > 255. The
>
> problem is my python script is unable to recognize these junction
> points.
>
> > As an example I've a junction point JC04 pointing to a folder
> > DeepPathLevel57which has path length around 700. When I do
>
> > "cd E:\JunctionPaths\JC04\DeepPathLevel57" at command prompt, am able to
>
> access the folder. When I try to list the directories in that folder
> using os.listdir in python am getting the below error.
>
> You shouldn't need to mess around with junction points;
> just recast your r"c:\very\long\...\path" as
> ur"\\?\c:\very\long\...path" and pass that into whatever
> function you're using.
>
> More info here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx
>
> TJG

Thank you very much for your reply... but will the same work if I try
to open it like the below?

f = open("\\?\C:\very\very\...path")

Thank you,
Venu Madhav.