help with file path exceeding 255 characters

[yguan08 at gmail.com]

On May 13, 3:49 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> ygua... at gmail.com writes:
> > I have trouble of obtaining the file size of a file because the
> > fullpath exceeds 255 characters. I get this message with
> > os.path.getsize(fullpath).
>
> > fullpath = r"\\LOSSSFS002\NWE_TECHNICAL\05. UK\Schiehallion (204_25a)
> > \Amos&Burke_P559\07. Technical (Subsurface)\06. Well Planning\Amos
> > \Daily Reports\Wireline\final_204_25a_8z\204_25a_8z\Run_1A
> > \HRLA_SP_DSI_PEX_HNGS_ECRD\ANCILLARY\Amos_204_25a-8Z_GR_to_surface_3-
> > Mar-2008_DSI_HRLA_TLD_MCFL_047PUC.las"
>
> > fsize = os.path.getsize(fullpath)
>
> > WindowsError: [Error 206] The filename or extension is too long:
>
> > The same thing with os.stat(fullpath).
>
> > I tried using the relative path, but it does not work with the message
> > fname not found.
>
> > dir = os.path.dirname(fullpath)
> > fname = os.path.basename(fullpath)
> > os.chdir(dir)
> > filesize = os.path.getsize(fname)
>
> > Is there a walk around of this?
>
> Disclaimer: I am not a Windows user
>
> Might this help?  http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?p=2353
>
> Alternately, use a better OS :-)
>
> --
> Arnaud- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I tried, but still the same error:

WindowsError: [Error 206] The filename or extension is too long: '\\\\?
\\UNC\\LOSSSFS002\\NWE_TECHNICAL\\05. UK\\Schiehallion (204_25a)\
\Amos&Burke_P559\\07. Technical (Subsurface)\\06. Well Planning\\Amos\
\Daily Reports\\Wireline\\final_204_25a_8z\\204_25a_8z\\Run_1A\
\HRLA_SP_DSI_PEX_HNGS_ECRD\\ANCILLARY\\Amos_204_25a-8Z_GR_to_surface_3-
Mar-2008_DSI_HRLA_TLD_MCFL_047PUC.las'