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warsaw

opened on Oct 7, 2022

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Issue #97850 is the meta issue tracking removals of long deprecated functions from importlib. This ticket tracks just the removals of the following previously deprecated APIs:

• find_loader()
• find_module()
• imp module
• importlib.abc.Finder
• pkgutil.ImpImporter
• pkgutil.ImpLoader

• @brettcannon @ericsnowcurrently

Linked PRs

• gh-98040: Remove just the imp module #98573
• gh-98040: Move the Single-Phase Init Tests Out of test_imp #102561
• gh-98040: Remove find_loader, find_module and other deprecated APIs #98059
• GH-98040: Suppress cross-references to the removed imp module #104131
• gh-98040: Fix importbench: use types.ModuleType() #105743
• [3.12] gh-98040: Fix importbench: use types.ModuleType() (GH-105743) #105754

Reacted by eli

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1. warsaw

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   type-bugAn unexpected behavior, bug, or errorAn unexpected behavior, bug, or error

   on Oct 7, 2022
2. warsaw commented on Oct 7, 2022

   

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   Questions:

   • importlib.abs.PathEntryFinder has this comment: "We don't define find_spec() here since that would break hasattr checks we do to support backward compatibility." Do we need to define find_spec() in this ABC?
3. warsaw

   changed the title [-]Remove find_module() and find_loader() from Python 3.12[/-] [+]Remove find_module(), find_loader(), and NullImporter from Python 3.12[/+] on Oct 7, 2022
4. warsaw

   changed the title [-]Remove find_module(), find_loader(), and NullImporter from Python 3.12[/-] [+]Remove more deprecated importlib APIs from Python 3.12[/+] on Oct 7, 2022
5. warsaw commented on Oct 9, 2022

   

   warsaw

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   pkgutil.ImpImporter cannot be removed since pip 22.2.2 still uses it. This is also going to keep pkgutil.ImpLoader and the imp module around. I'm going to pause work on this branch until there's a pip upstream resolution.

   Reacted by Eric Snow
6. warsaw

   added a commit that references this issue on Oct 23, 2022

   pythongh-98040: Remove just the `imp` module

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7. hugovk commented on Apr 8, 2023

   

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   Little reminder: we're a month away from the beta freeze to remove these, or to bump removal to 3.13.
8. warsaw commented on Apr 8, 2023

   

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   My plan is to complete this work at the 2023 PyCon sprints.

   Reacted by Hugo van Kemenade, Eric Snow and Brett Cannon
9. CAM-Gerlach

   added a commit that references this issue on Apr 11, 2023

   pythongh-98040: Remove just the `imp` module

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10. ericsnowcurrently

    added a commit that references this issue on Apr 19, 2023

    gh-98040: Move the Single-Phase Init Tests Out of test_imp (gh-102561)

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11. carljm

    added a commit that references this issue on Apr 20, 2023

    Merge branch 'main' into superopt

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12. warsaw

    added a commit that references this issue on Apr 28, 2023

    gh-98040: Remove just the `imp` module (#98573)

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13. warsaw commented on Apr 29, 2023

    

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    Since the imp module was finally removed, I'm going to close this issue. Please refer back to the #97850 as the meta issue for cleaning up the import system cruft.
14. warsaw

    closed this as completedon Apr 29, 2023
15. warsaw

    added a commit that references this issue on May 3, 2023

    gh-98040: Remove find_loader, find_module and other deprecated APIs (#…

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16. 21 remaining items
17. gnossen

    added a commit that references this issue on Sep 6, 2023

    [Test] Do not use importlib find_module API, removed in Python 3.12 (#…

    efc3843
18. openstack-mirroring

    added 2 commits that reference this issue on Jan 7, 2024

    Replace find_module function

    104cb89

    Update git submodules

    b944a4e
19. yibe

    added a commit that references this issue on May 10, 2024

    Fix errors with Python 3.12

    a75c3d5
20. turtlebasket

    added a commit that references this issue on Feb 7, 2025

    bump pre-commit version to work with newer versions of python

    715eafb
21. rporres

    added 2 commits that reference this issue on Feb 14, 2025

    Fix 3.11.x version in pyproject

    7b88d7c

    Fix 3.11.x version in pyproject (#4870)

    4dd9116
22. agraul

    added 3 commits that reference this issue on Jun 11, 2025

    Replace TornadoImporter with TornadoFinder

    6873836

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    b79fc76

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    9a2922b
23. agraul

    added 3 commits that reference this issue on Jul 7, 2025

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    1123751

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    62a6f80

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    f91af3a
24. agraul

    added a commit that references this issue on Sep 4, 2025

    Update TornadoImport for newer Python versions

    0af5cc6
25. piRGoif

    added a commit that references this issue on Jul 6, 2026

    Fix module 'pkgutil' has no attribute '_get_spec'

    011be94

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