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| author | Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2020-10-20 06:01:12 -0600 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-10-20 13:01:12 +0100 |
| commit | ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a (patch) | |
| tree | e2a83f5bea4cfce3cee06411aca88cd632778d3b | |
| parent | f2312037e3a974d26ed3e23884f94c6af111a27a (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a.tar.gz | |
bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/using/windows.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst index b95a43c853..275495bc6d 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. |