https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f906522a4e1f4565ae7a449d3556dc8f70591b20
commit: f906522a4e1f4565ae7a449d3556dc8f70591b20
branch: main
author: Bernát Gábor <[email protected]>
committer: brettcannon <[email protected]>
date: 2026-06-04T20:08:58Z
summary:
gh-150886: Remove unused importlib._bootstrap._object_name (#150884)
Introduced in GH-23469 (bpo-26131, "Deprecate usage of load_module()")
to render an object's qualified name inside the load_module()
deprecation warnings.
Orphaned by gh-142205 (GH-97850, "Remove all uses and definitions of
load_module() from importlib"), which deleted the warning-building call
sites f"{_object_name(spec.loader)}.exec_module() not found; ..." and
left the helper with no caller.
A word-boundary search across Lib, Modules, Python, Objects and Include
finds zero references outside its own definition, and a GitHub code
search finds no downstream importers. The frozen importlib was
regenerated; importlib._bootstrap._object_name no longer exists at
runtime and the full test_importlib suite passes.
files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-03-21-59-11.gh-issue-150886.r2c25g.rst
M Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
diff --git a/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
index 06dc45d71d7ca4a..eb1686a5c8217c6 100644
--- a/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
@@ -20,12 +20,6 @@
# reference any injected objects! This includes not only global code but also
# anything specified at the class level.
-def _object_name(obj):
- try:
- return obj.__qualname__
- except AttributeError:
- return type(obj).__qualname__
-
# Bootstrap-related code ######################################################
# Modules injected manually by _setup()
diff --git
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-03-21-59-11.gh-issue-150886.r2c25g.rst
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-03-21-59-11.gh-issue-150886.r2c25g.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..b220b63cfdb4ab5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-03-21-59-11.gh-issue-150886.r2c25g.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Remove the private, undocumented function
+``importlib._bootstrap._object_name()``. It had no caller after
+``load_module()`` and its deprecation warnings were removed from
+:mod:`importlib`.
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