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Title: Typo in documentation
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 3.8
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Status: closed Resolution: out of date
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: Alisue Lambda, ammar2, docs@python, iritkatriel, pablogsal, steve.dower
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2018-08-14 15:04 by Alisue Lambda, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg323527 - (view) Author: Alisue Lambda (Alisue Lambda) Date: 2018-08-14 15:04
https://docs.python.org/3.8/using/windows.html#removing-the-max-path-limitation

Current
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled

Should be
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\LongPathsEnabled
msg323534 - (view) Author: Pablo Galindo Salgado (pablogsal) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-08-14 19:11
Isn't this saying that LongPathsEnabled is a value on the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem?
msg323535 - (view) Author: Pablo Galindo Salgado (pablogsal) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-08-14 19:12
I am not sure how people usually refer to the Windows register but this seems that the current line is differentiating from the path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

and the value

LongPathsEnabled
msg323550 - (view) Author: Ammar Askar (ammar2) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-08-15 06:57
For what its worth, window's reg command also makes a distinction between the registry key and value:


C:\Users\ammar>reg.exe QUERY HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\Enable64Bit
ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

C:\Users\ammar>reg.exe QUERY HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework /V Enable64Bit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework
    Enable64Bit    REG_DWORD    0x1


Maybe it can just be phrased as something like, "set the registry value LongPathsEnabled in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
msg323566 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-08-15 13:31
Yeah, it definitely shouldn't be a backslash there. The @ isn't my invention, but last time someone questioned it I couldn't find any public examples, so it may be an internal Microsoft thing? I'm not totally attached to it, but if you want to fix it it'll need to be written out in full that it's "a value named X of type Y".
msg415629 - (view) Author: Irit Katriel (iritkatriel) * (Python committer) Date: 2022-03-20 19:48
This has been fixed by now.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:04adminsetgithub: 78587
2022-03-20 19:48:04iritkatrielsetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + iritkatriel
messages: + msg415629

resolution: out of date
stage: resolved
2018-08-15 13:31:13steve.dowersetmessages: + msg323566
2018-08-15 07:51:48berker.peksagsetnosy: + steve.dower
2018-08-15 06:57:55ammar2setnosy: + ammar2
messages: + msg323550
2018-08-14 19:12:54pablogsalsetmessages: + msg323535
2018-08-14 19:11:41pablogsalsetnosy: + pablogsal
messages: + msg323534
2018-08-14 15:04:57Alisue Lambdasettitle: Type in documentation -> Typo in documentation
2018-08-14 15:04:48Alisue Lambdacreate