Here is my code snippet which you will be interested in:
Indeed.
file = ur'\\?\C:\\TestDataSet\DeepPaths \DeepPathLevel01\DeepPathLevel02\DeepPathLevel03\DeepPathLevel04\DeepPathLevel05\DeepPathLevel06\DeepPathLevel07\DeepPathLevel08\DeepPathLevel09\DeepPathLevel10\DeepPathLevel11\DeepPathLevel12\DeepPathLevel13\DeepPathLevel14\DeepPathLevel15\DeepPathLevel16\DeepPathLevel172.txt'
And what happens if you remove that second double-backslash, the one between C: and TestDataSet? TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list