Error value error stat path too long for Windows display in terminal window

[DonJayamanne]

Error message value error stat path to long for Windows is display in the terminal window when hovering over python in line 30 the above error is displayed in the terminal window.
Upstream issue microsoft/ptvsd#119

[brettcannon]

What line 23? What error?

[qubitron]

The code for this is here:
https://github.com/qubitron/hello-stackoverflow/blob/master/stackoverflow.py

I set a breakpoint on line 19 and start stepping around and looking at variables. The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\wrapper.py", line 505, in done
    fut.result()
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\futures.py", line 39, in result
    reraise(self._exc_info)
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\reraise3.py", line 11, in reraise
    raise exc_info[1].with_traceback(exc_info[2])
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\futures.py", line 154, in callback
    x = it.send(fut.result())
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\wrapper.py", line 721, in on_variables
    xml = untangle.parse(resp_args).xml
  File "C:\demo\hello-stackoverflow\env\lib\site-packages\ptvsd\untangle.py", line 188, in parse
    if is_string(filename) and (os.path.exists(filename) or is_url(filename)):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\genericpath.py", line 19, in exists
    os.stat(path)
ValueError: stat: path too long for Windows

[brettcannon]

Did you install Python with the max path length restriction turned off?

[qubitron]

@brettcannon Python was installed by Visual Studio, so whatever Visual Studio does. Based on the error, it looks like max path is turned on. I can try to install a new version of python with max_path off.

[DonJayamanne]

Closing as the issue has been resolved upstream.