bpo-40831: Remove an incorrect statement in the Windows docs (GH-20570)

(cherry picked from commit c8966667bbdb284c3780ef6cec8a3870935a6bb7)

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

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 636f48dfb012b07927fa969a48a45bfda6ef17ea..5114a26a57d072abf852f503c8490b877b1ed378 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -108,9 +108,7 @@ approximately 32,000 characters. Your administrator will need to activate the
 to ``1``.
 
 This allows the :func:`open` function, the :mod:`os` module and most other
-path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters when
-using strings. (Use of bytes as paths is deprecated on Windows, and this feature
-is not available when using bytes.)
+path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters.
 
 After changing the above option, no further configuration is required.