Problem with os.chdir()

[van Asselt]

Hello,

In order to prevent this type of problems, I alway do the following:

import path

path = something
path = os.path.normpath(path)
os.chdir(path)

This prevents a lot of problems for me.

Regards,
Henk

"Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote in message 
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> venutaurus539 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>            I am writing a python script which has to access deep paths
>> then supported normally by the Windows OS (>255). So I am appending "\
>> \?\" to do so. But when I use the path in the above fashion with
>> os.chdir() it is unable to recognize my folder and throwing an error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 31, in <module>
>>     renameStubs(file)
>>   File "C:\JPDump\test.py", line 15, in renameStubs
>>     os.chdir (path)
>> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume
>> label syntax is incorrect: '\\?\\C:\\TestDataSet\
>> \Many_Files_10000_1KB_FIles\\001_0009_1000 FILES\\'
>>
>> The value of my path variable is
>> \?\C:\TestDataSet\Many_Files_10000_1KB_FIles\001_0009_1000 FILES\
>
>
> There need to be two backslashes at the beginning:
>
> \\?\C:\TEST.....FILES\
>
> Note the double backslash before the question mark.
>
> TJG