[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Change by Steve Dower : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset d0dc369a90e356bf2eba651816feb7ad736ce28a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-40831: Remove an incorrect statement in the Windows docs (GH-20570) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d0dc369a90e356bf2eba651816feb7ad736ce28a

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset d7f2fd2ae54161362c7f3d28bd7a1840a796e63d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-40831: Remove an incorrect statement in the Windows docs (GH-20570) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d7f2fd2ae54161362c7f3d28bd7a1840a796e63d

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset a169961dfc777eb467a2b1027391285a7706329a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-40831: Remove an incorrect statement in the Windows docs (GH-20570) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a169961dfc777eb467a2b1027391285a7706329a

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +19815 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20575 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset c897bbdb284c3780ef6cec8a3870935a6bb7 by Zackery Spytz in branch 'master': bpo-40831: Remove an incorrect statement in the Windows docs (GH-20570) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c897bbdb284c3780ef6cec8a3870935a6bb7 --

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +19814 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20574 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington nosy_count: 6.0 -> 7.0 pull_requests: +19813 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20573 ___ Python tracker

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Zackery Spytz added the comment: I have created a fix for this issue. Please consider taking a look. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +ZackerySpytz nosy_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 pull_requests: +19810 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20570 ___ Python tracker

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Steve Dower added the comment: Python now decodes bytes back into a str when used as a path, so the behaviour is identical. Someone else might feel comfortable doing the patch, I didn't mean to imply that you had to. Only that it is a valid fix and won't be a waste of time. --

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Eric L. added the comment: The question is if only the statement that bytes are deprecated is wrong, but also if the long path feature is supported with bytes or not. As written, I'm a Linux guy, I don't feel like I have the pre-requisites to check this properly. --

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

Steve Dower added the comment: That's correct, though I thought PEP 528 and 529 applied earlier than that? Around 3.6, I thought. Feel free to make a doc update though. That reference is definitely out of date. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue40831] Wrong statement that bytes paths are deprecated under Windows regarding MAX_PATH docs

New submission from Eric L. : In chapter 3.1.2. Removing the MAX_PATH Limitation of https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#removing-the-max-path-limitation (also in 3.9 and 3.10), it is written that "(Use of bytes as paths is deprecated on Windows, and this feature is not available