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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index fd4a726..55d22dd 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -1731,11 +1731,13 @@ Porting Python code both the modification time and size of the source file the bytecode file was compiled from. -* :func:`pkgutil.iter_modules` and :func:`pkgutil.walk_packages` no longer work - with modules imported using the default import system. Both functions have - always relied on a non-standard method (``iter_modules()``) to be defined on - loaders to work and the import system now always provides a loader for - modules but does not implement the non-standard method. +* :mod:`pkgutil` has been converted to use :mod:`importlib` internally. This + eliminates many edge cases where the old behaviour of the PEP 302 import + emulation failed to match the behaviour of the real import system. The + import emulation itself is still present, but is now deprecated. The + :func:`pkgutil.iter_importers` and :func:`pkgutil.walk_packages` functions + special case the standard import hooks so they are still supported even + though they do not provide the non-standard ``iter_modules()`` method. Porting C code |