From f0d0099ab70946aecf2f12695a9fe65928dc6533 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zackery Spytz Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 06:01:12 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281) (cherry picked from commit ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a) Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz --- Doc/using/windows.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst index 5114a26a57d072..46390707e31087 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.