Problem with os.chdir()

[Tim Golden]

venutaurus539 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>            I am writing a python script which has to access deep paths
> then supported normally by the Windows OS (>255). So I am appending "\
> \?\" to do so. But when I use the path in the above fashion with
> os.chdir() it is unable to recognize my folder and throwing an error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 31, in <module>
>     renameStubs(file)
>   File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 15, in renameStubs
>     os.chdir (path)
> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume
> label syntax is incorrect: '\\?\\C:\\TestDataSet\
> \Many_Files_10000_1KB_FIles\\001_0009_1000 FILES\\'
> 
> The value of my path variable is
> \?\C:\TestDataSet\Many_Files_10000_1KB_FIles\001_0009_1000 FILES\


There need to be two backslashes at the beginning:

\\?\C:\TEST.....FILES\

Note the double backslash before the question mark.

TJG