Re: 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
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