[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

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[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

Steve Dower added the comment: I don't know that it's a great idea, but I did PR 15914 just to see how an additional message on OSError would look. -- stage: patch review -> ___ Python tracker

[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

Change by Steve Dower : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +1 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15914 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

Eryk Sun added the comment: > I think this only happens with open(). Well, and everything else that calls a CRT function and relies on errno, such as C read() and write(). Though we'd have to look through on a case-by-case basis to ensure that _doserrno is valid in each case, i.e. that errn

[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

Eryk Sun added the comment: > First it seems the error is being raised incorrectly - winerror 2 is > for file not found, but it's being passed as errno 2. I think this only happens with open(). The _io module could use the CRT's _doserrno value to call PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename

[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

Steve Dower added the comment: Short of adding a popup into Python itself the first time you run it (and would that include if you run "pip" first?), we don't have any ability to extend the installer. We could reduce the "local-packages/Python37/site-packages" part of the path by implementi

[issue37769] Windows Store installer should warn user about MAX_PATH

New submission from Jonas Binding : The "Windows Store" installer for Python has a seemingly low entry barrier, causing people to install without reading something like https://docs.python.org/3.7/using/windows.html. However, due to the really long path it uses for Python (e.g. C:\Users\USE