[issue23014] Don't have importlib.abc.Loader.create_module() be optional

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Sounds good to me.

I'm not sure what to put in the docs about calling importlib.util.module_from_spec() from create_module() implementations. Really, if a loader can use that, then it should be doing whatever it was going to do after the call in exec_module() instead.

create_module() is intended specifically for cases where you genuinely need to do something different to create the object (as in the concept of calling in to a C level module creation hook, or the idea of allowing a __new__.py file in package directories)

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