ValueError: stat: path too long for Windows
in OpenSesame
I am currently experiencing a very funny problem.
Unfortunately it occurs too often, so that it annoys quite much and is not so funny anymore. 
Here the complete error:
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libqtopensesame\runners\base_runner.py", line 221, in init_experiment
logfile=logfile)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\experiment.py", line 139, in __init__
string = self.open(string)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\experiment.py", line 627, in open
if not os.path.exists(src):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\lib\genericpath.py", line 19, in exists
os.stat(path)
ValueError: stat: path too long for Windows
What's so funny about that?
When i shorten my experiment it runs. No matter where i shorten it.
Even if i just shorten variable names. Anywhere!
I have the impression that there is a limited number of words allowed for inline_scripts. [like when you insert your abstract on the journals website. And then you get the message: "Your abstract is too long. Please shorten to 250 words"]
Is that your way to make us write programming language more efficiently? Grr...
Greetz
Stephan
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Hi Stephan,
That's odd--I've never seen that error before. Could you provide some more details?
That will give us some basis to decide whether this problem is hilarious or not.
Cheers,
Sebastiaan
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I hope with the upload you get all of these informations. I am using Windows 7 which is provided by the university network.
When i got this message, first thing i did, was to put the file directly in C:, which in my opinion is the shortest path possible. But it seems like the error does not have to do with that.
Then i gradually tried to find our where the error is. Until now i did not find it.
I noticed: Any items works on its own. [I had to delete all others, the problem still occurs when they are in the unused items bin. See also my post on unused items.]
And i noticed that when i delete some parts of the script (anywhere parts!), the rest runs fine.
Try using Long Path Tool, it really works for me ! I recommended it to you.