Which is part of what I meant when I said “let the bikeshedding begin”. Name isn’t the only thing that’ll be argued.
But I also want to put it out there that, in some cases, maybe it ISN’T an importlib feature that people want. If it turns out that what you want is 95% handled by a simple exec call, maybe you actually don’t need it to be part of importing.
I also want to point out the
impmodule has been pending deprecation for 10 years and a direct deprecation for 8 years. There hasn’t been a flood of asks until now when people are panicking.
Exactly. Nobody cares about pending deprecations, it only matters once it’s about to hurt.