gh-125746: Delay deprecated zipimport.zipimporter.load_module removal time to 3.15

[Wulian233]

#125746 (comment)

I would like to hold off on this change for one more version. A quick GitHub search shows that 1.8k projects are still relying on load_module (and my regular expression isn't perfect, so I'm certain that we're missing some).

The new zipimport methods (I'm using "new" loosely here, I'm talking about the 3.10 methods) were only added to typeshed in late June, so I would assume that many were intentionally using load_module over exec_module, because their IDE was telling them that it doesn't exist (to confirm that, adjusting my GitHub search shows that only 250 projects are using exec_module). Similarly, load_module isn't marked as @deprecated on typeshed, so when we did add it, it's unlikely that people realized they needed to migrate.

• Issue: Delay deprecated zipimport.zipimporter.load_module removal time to 3.15 #125746

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[rruuaanng]

I also encountered this problem, but I don't know why it happened. I opened an issue.

[ZeroIntensity]

I would like to postpone this until 3.15. Please update the PR to move the load_module deprecation to pending-removal-in-3.15

[Wulian233]

You're right, when I did this pr, my vscode (the latest Python extension) didn't prompt exec_module either. I will edit the pending-removal-in-3.15.rst and Lib/zipimport.py to remove the entries for pending-removal-in-future.rst

[ZeroIntensity]

Thank you! LGTM.

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[bedevere-app]

Thanks for making the requested changes!

@brettcannon: please review the changes made to this pull request.

[picnixz]

Can you check if there is a deprecated-removed directive to update in the corresponding docs entry?

[Wulian233]

@brettcannon Friendly ping:) maybe we can merge this? It should be fine now, thank you!

[rruuaanng]

@Wulian233 Be patient, everyone has their own job :)

[ZeroIntensity]

Eh, IMO it's fine to remind someone to merge if the PR hasn't had any additional reviewers.

[Wulian233]

A few months later: A similar PR for the delayed removal of load_module in importlib #129855 was just merged and backported. Is this PR still needed?

cc @brettcannon

[tomasr8]

Is this PR still needed?

It is, this one updates zipimport, while the other one was for importlib.

[brettcannon]

Sorry for the delay! Got swamped and this fell off my radar thinking I was waiting on something for the PR.