Add initial implementation of importlib. See the NOTES files for what is
planned for the package.
There are no docs yet, but they are coming once the API for the first new
function, importlib.import_module() is finalized.
diff --git a/Lib/importlib/test/import_/test_packages.py b/Lib/importlib/test/import_/test_packages.py
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+++ b/Lib/importlib/test/import_/test_packages.py
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+import sys
+import unittest
+import importlib
+from .. import support
+
+
+class ParentModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ """Importing a submodule should import the parent modules."""
+
+ def test_import_parent(self):
+ with support.mock_modules('pkg.__init__', 'pkg.module') as mock:
+ with support.import_state(meta_path=[mock]):
+ module = support.import_('pkg.module')
+ self.assert_('pkg' in sys.modules)
+
+ def test_bad_parent(self):
+ with support.mock_modules('pkg.module') as mock:
+ with support.import_state(meta_path=[mock]):
+ self.assertRaises(ImportError, support.import_, 'pkg.module')
+
+
+def test_main():
+ from test.support import run_unittest
+ run_unittest(ParentModuleTests)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ test_main()