[New-bugs-announce] [issue27729] Provide a better error message when the file path is too long on Windows

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

Windows has a max path length when the path doesn't start with r'\\?\'. When you hit that limit you get a FileNotFoundError but no explanation that it was because of some file path length. It would be nice to clarify this case in the exception message (probably by changing PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects() in Python/errors.c).

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components: Windows
messages: 272382
nosy: brett.cannon, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: Provide a better error message when the file path is too long on Windows
type: behavior

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