[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset bd9d769eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485 by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bd9d769eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485 --

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779 by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779 --

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

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[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington pull_requests: +21772 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22816 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

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

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a by Zackery Spytz in branch 'master': bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a --

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +ZackerySpytz nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 pull_requests: +19558 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20281 ___ Python tracker

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: @chrullrich, were you still interested in creating a PR for this? Thanks! -- nosy: +cheryl.sabella versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Steve Dower added the comment: There's a handful of references in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/walkthrough-creating-a-multiple-computer-build-environment, though TBH most of the docs written by actual doc writers use more complicated sentences to avoid it. It's also the

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Christian Ullrich added the comment: Out of curiosity, can you point me to an example or two? I have been living with, though not in, Win32 for quite a few years myself, and I can say with certainty that I have never seen this notation before in my life. Other than that, PR on the way

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Steve Dower added the comment: Pull requests welcome, but as someone who lives in the Windows API day in and day out, I can vouch for it being the normal abbreviated way of specifying a fully qualified registry value. -- priority: normal -> low ___

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

Changes by R. David Murray : -- components: +Windows nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue30612] Unusual Windows registry path syntax

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."