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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2014-01-07 20:52:42 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2014-01-07 20:52:42 (GMT)
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Issue #19719: Update various finder and loader ABCs such that their
old methods now provide implementations when PEP 451 APIs are present. This should help with backwards-compatibility with code which has not been updated to work with PEP 451.
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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(),
+ PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to
+ help with backwards-compatibility.
+
- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic
constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__.