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

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bd9d76bbbb9eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485
commit: bd9d76bbbb9eb226d99e186dae39e06ba8977485
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2020-10-20T05:23:39-07:00
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 b95a43c853c28..275495bc6d129 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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