Backport importlib in the form of providing importlib.import_module(). This has
been done purely to help transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9878199..da016c1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
+  been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
+
 - Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
   the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.