[Python-checkins] bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779
commit: f53ea8adaecacfe8c1e4a093136fb5318b15d779
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-10-20T05:11:25-07:00
summary:

bpo-30612: Tweak Windows registry path syntax in the docs (GH-20281)

(cherry picked from commit ff1ae3dd334faa2006394c2318db385cdc42030a)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 5114a26a57d07..46390707e3108 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 at 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.



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