file names longer than MAX_PATH under Windows 2003

[Sergey]

"Tim Golden" <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.1897.1139918374.27775.python-list at python.org...
[Sergey]

>Not to state the obvious, but can you cut-and-paste that long
>string (the one starting with \\?\e:\...) from the Python
>interpreter into the [S]tart [R]un [O]pen field to see what
>comes up? I'm just trying to make sure of the most straightforward
>fact: that the file you've got there definitely does exist!

Sorry, it was my error - there was extra backslash in the middle of path.
\\?\path works OK.