gh-97850: Deprecate `find_loader` and `get_loader` in `pkgutil` (GH-98520)

Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin <oleg@arhadthedev.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pkgutil.py b/Lib/pkgutil.py
index f62eccb..dccbec5 100644
--- a/Lib/pkgutil.py
+++ b/Lib/pkgutil.py
@@ -270,6 +270,10 @@ def get_loader(module_or_name):
     If the named module is not already imported, its containing package
     (if any) is imported, in order to establish the package __path__.
     """
+    warnings._deprecated("pkgutil.get_loader",
+                         f"{warnings._DEPRECATED_MSG}; "
+                         "use importlib.util.find_spec() instead",
+                         remove=(3, 14))
     if module_or_name in sys.modules:
         module_or_name = sys.modules[module_or_name]
         if module_or_name is None:
@@ -294,6 +298,10 @@ def find_loader(fullname):
     importlib.util.find_spec that converts most failures to ImportError
     and only returns the loader rather than the full spec
     """
+    warnings._deprecated("pkgutil.find_loader",
+                         f"{warnings._DEPRECATED_MSG}; "
+                         "use importlib.util.find_spec() instead",
+                         remove=(3, 14))
     if fullname.startswith('.'):
         msg = "Relative module name {!r} not supported".format(fullname)
         raise ImportError(msg)