From 20367420c8b32602a550834fa3fb061a9d9a3b55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Dower Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:02:27 -0800 Subject: Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder --- Doc/library/importlib.rst | 4 ++++ Doc/using/windows.rst | 8 ++++++++ Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 4 ++++ Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+) 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 ~~ diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index a15bb9b..deb1549 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Library - Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed. +Windows +------- + +- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder + Tests ----- -- cgit v0.12