New submission from Christian Ullrich: In 3.6.1, the manual, section 3.1.3, has this to say:
"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." Separating a value name from the key path with an @-sign, which is what the above is doing, is something I have never before seen anywhere. I suggest changing it by either: - replacing the instructions for the manual change with a link to <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath> or a more suitable reference (I could not find a KB article when I looked) - rewording it as, e.g., ... in the registry key HKEY_...FileSystem, set the REG_DWORD value LongPathsEnabled to 1 The value type could be left out; the value is predefined on all platforms where it will be effective. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 295505 nosy: Christian.Ullrich, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Unusual Windows registry path syntax type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30612> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
