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authorZackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>2020-03-30 16:04:45 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-03-30 16:04:45 (GMT)
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bpo-8901: Windows registry path is now ignored with the -E option (GH-18169)
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@@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ Build and C API Changes
* The :c:func:`PyModule_AddType` function is added to help adding a type to a module.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`40024`.)
+* The Windows registry is no longer used to initialize :data:`sys.path` when
+ the ``-E`` option is used. This is significant when embedding Python on
+ Windows.
+ (Contributed by Zackery Spytz in :issue:`8901`.)
+
Deprecated
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