[issue21436] Consider leaving importlib.abc.Loader.load_module()

Nick Coghlan added the comment: FWIW, I think it would be desirable to retain/restore some form of API that allows the creation of modules from files without requiring the user to know about module specs (or loaders, or anything else). My current preference would be for a "module_from_file_l

[issue21436] Consider leaving importlib.abc.Loader.load_module()

Sebastian Rittau added the comment: I would ask you to reconsider this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67631/how-to-import-a-module-given-the-full-path/67692#67692 is a highly active question on StackOverflow, and my answer basically provided me all the karma I got there. For users that

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Brett Cannon added the comment: Python 3.5 lets you do: spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('what.ever', 'foo.py') module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(module) I am satisfied that case for loading from a file is easy enough to not warrant keepi

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Eric Snow added the comment: I'd rather see something like "load_from_spec()" added to importlib.util, a la issue #21235. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

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[issue21436] Consider leaving importlib.abc.Loader.load_module()

Brett Cannon added the comment: So it's not quite as bad as you think as SourceFileLoader.load_module() doesn't need an argument (I've opened http://bugs.python.org/issue21438 to fix the documentation). Admittedly it is a longer command than imp.load_source() to type, but there is no extra inf