Mailing List Archive: bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

Oct 20, 2020, 5:01 AM

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a
commit: ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a
branch: master
author: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com>
date: 2020-10-20T13:01:12+01:00
summary:

bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index b95a43c853c28..275495bc6d129 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ paths longer than this would not resolve and errors would result.

In the latest versions of Windows, this limitation can be expanded to
approximately 32,000 characters. Your administrator will need to activate the
-"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set the registry value
-``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled``
-to ``1``.
+"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set ``LongPathsEnabled`` to ``1``
+in the registry key
+``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem``.

This allows the :func:`open` function, the :mod:`os` module and most other
path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters.

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Oct 20, 2020, 5:11 AM

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779
commit: f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com>
date: 2020-10-20T05:11:25-07:00
summary:

bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

(cherry picked from commit ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 5114a26a57d07..46390707e3108 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ paths longer than this would not resolve and errors would result.

In the latest versions of Windows, this limitation can be expanded to
approximately 32,000 characters. Your administrator will need to activate the
-"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set the registry value
-``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled``
-to ``1``.
+"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set ``LongPathsEnabled`` to ``1``
+in the registry key
+``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem``.

This allows the :func:`open` function, the :mod:`os` module and most other
path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters.

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bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281) [ In reply to ]

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Oct 20, 2020, 5:23 AM

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bd9d76bbbb9eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485
commit: bd9d76bbbb9eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2020-10-20T05:23:39-07:00
summary:

bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

(cherry picked from commit ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index b95a43c853c28..275495bc6d129 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ paths longer than this would not resolve and errors would result.

In the latest versions of Windows, this limitation can be expanded to
approximately 32,000 characters. Your administrator will need to activate the
-"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set the registry value
-``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled``
-to ``1``.
+"Enable Win32 long paths" group policy, or set ``LongPathsEnabled`` to ``1``
+in the registry key
+``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem``.

This allows the :func:`open` function, the :mod:`os` module and most other
path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters.

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