Issue #13959: Rename imp to _imp and add Lib/imp.py and begin
rewriting functionality in pure Python.
To start, imp.new_module() has been rewritten in pure Python, put into
importlib (privately) and then publicly exposed in imp.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67d8262..36b82d4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
+ re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.
+
- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.