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

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/Python/makeopcodetargets.py b/Python/makeopcodetargets.py
index 5aa3180..2b402ae 100755
--- a/Python/makeopcodetargets.py
+++ b/Python/makeopcodetargets.py
@@ -7,24 +7,18 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 
-try:
-    from importlib.machinery import SourceFileLoader
-except ImportError:
-    import imp
-
-    def find_module(modname):
-        """Finds and returns a module in the local dist/checkout.
-        """
-        modpath = os.path.join(
-            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "Lib")
-        return imp.load_module(modname, *imp.find_module(modname, [modpath]))
-else:
-    def find_module(modname):
-        """Finds and returns a module in the local dist/checkout.
-        """
-        modpath = os.path.join(
-            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "Lib", modname + ".py")
-        return SourceFileLoader(modname, modpath).load_module()
+# 2023-04-27(warsaw): Pre-Python 3.12, this would catch ImportErrors and try to
+# import imp, and then use imp.load_module().  The imp module was removed in
+# Python 3.12 (and long deprecated before that), and it's unclear under what
+# conditions this import will now fail, so the fallback was simply removed.
+from importlib.machinery import SourceFileLoader
+
+def find_module(modname):
+    """Finds and returns a module in the local dist/checkout.
+    """
+    modpath = os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "Lib", modname + ".py")
+    return SourceFileLoader(modname, modpath).load_module()
 
 
 def write_contents(f):