Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Reproduced on WinXP.
execfile() does not work because it calls the system function stat(); 
this function does accept UNC paths (like \\machine\share\file), but not paths 
which contain a wildcard character ('?' or '*')

I suggest to remove the leading '\\\\?\\'.

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