Bug report / cleanup

Two private helpers lost their last caller when a feature was removed and now sit unused. A word-boundary search across Lib, Modules, Python, Objects, and Include finds no reference to either outside its own definition, and a GitHub code search finds no downstream importer.

shutil._ensure_directory(path)

• [3.6] bpo-33967: Remove use of deprecated assertRaisesRegexp() (GH-8261) #8295 added it with shutil.unpack_archive() to create the parent directory of each extracted member.
• gh-146581: Fix vulnerability in shutil.unpack_archive() for ZIP files on Windows #146591 (shutil.unpack_archive() on Windows writes outside extract_dir for ZIP entries with drive-prefixed names #146581), the ZIP path-traversal fix, reworked _unpack_zipfile() to create directories inline and deleted the last _ensure_directory(targetpath) call.

importlib._bootstrap._object_name(obj)

• gh-70319: Deprecate usage of load_module() #23469 (bpo-26131) added it to render an object's qualified name inside the load_module() deprecation warnings.
• Meta issue for cleaning up import system cruft #97850 (GH-97850: Remove all uses and definitions of load_module() from importlib #142205) removed load_module() and its warnings, deleting the last call site.

I will open one PR per module. Both removals keep the existing test suites green (test_shutil, test_importlib).

Linked PRs

• gh-150885: Remove unused shutil._ensure_directory #150883
• gh-150886: Remove unused importlib._bootstrap._object_name #150884