Steve Dower added the comment:
Here's my proposed doc change for 3.6.0. Any concerns about wording? (The
change to remove the line from _bootstrap_external.py will be separate, for
ease of cherry-picking.)
diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -806,6 +806,10 @@
.. 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
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -823,6 +823,14 @@
* 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
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