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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2016-12-08 17:01:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2016-12-08 17:01:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 3b3a7c01bca9729a8e516dc0b045663c72456401 (patch) | |
| tree | 4260ce65b51010eb87998a67704b2283f4407d8e | |
| parent | 808e47ee0cb369680b4edb641989f870de71da49 (diff) | |
| parent | 20367420c8b32602a550834fa3fb061a9d9a3b55 (diff) | |
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Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/importlib.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/using/windows.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index 8210a2f..1fd5698 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -806,6 +806,10 @@ find and load modules. .. versionadded:: 3.3 + .. deprecated:: 3.6 + Use :mod:`site` configuration instead. Future versions of Python may + not enable this finder by default. + .. class:: PathFinder diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst index 81efbb0..3e4b70e 100644 --- a/Doc/using/windows.rst +++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst @@ -823,6 +823,14 @@ non-standard paths in the registry and user site-packages. * Adds ``pythonXX.zip`` as a potential landmark when directly adjacent to the executable. +.. deprecated:: + 3.6 + + Modules specified in the registry under ``Modules`` (not ``PythonPath``) + may be imported by :class:`importlib.machinery.WindowsRegistryFinder`. + This finder is enabled on Windows in 3.6.0 and earlier, but may need to + be explicitly added to :attr:`sys.meta_path` in the future. + Additional modules ================== diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 527e742..ddca2ef 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -1938,6 +1938,10 @@ are now deprecated. They were the only remaining implementations of been deprecated in previous versions of Python in favour of :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module`. +The :class:`importlib.machinery.WindowsRegistryFinder` class is now +deprecated. As of 3.6.0, it is still added to :attr:`sys.meta_path` by +default (on Windows), but this may change in future releases. + os ~~ @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ Library Windows ------- +- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder + - Issue #28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c - Issue #28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows. |