On Mar 11, 5:19 pm, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > Here is my code snippet which you will be interested in: > > Indeed. > > > file = ur'\\?\C:\\TestDataSet\DeepPaths > > \DeepPathLevel01\DeepPathLevel02\DeepPathLevel03\DeepPathLevel04\DeepPathLe > > vel05\DeepPathLevel06\DeepPathLevel07\DeepPathLevel08\DeepPathLevel09\DeepP > > athLevel10\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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even if I give the file path as below
file = ur'\\?\C:\TestDataSet\DeepPaths \DeepPathLevel01\DeepPathLevel02\DeepPathLevel03\DeepPathLevel04\DeepPathLevel05\DeepPathLevel06\DeepPathLevel07\DeepPathLevel08\DeepPathLevel09\DeepPathLevel10\DeepPathLevel11\DeepPathLevel12\DeepPathLevel13\DeepPathLevel14\DeepPathLevel15\DeepPathLevel16\DeepPathLevel172.txt' I am still getting the exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 29, in <module> renameStubs(file) File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 12, in renameStubs os.chdir (path) WindowsError: [Error 206] The filename or extension is too long: u'\\\ \?\\C:\\TestDataSet\\DeepPaths\\DeepPathLevel01\\DeepPathLevel02\ \DeepPathLevel03\\DeepPathLevel04\\DeepPathLevel05\\DeepPathLevel06\ \DeepPathLevel07\\DeepPathLevel08\\DeepPathLevel09\\DeepPathLevel10\ \DeepPathLevel11\\DeepPathLevel12\\DeepPathLevel13\\DeepPathLevel14\ \DeepPathLevel15\\DeepPathLevel16\\' Please help.. Thank you, Venu M -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list