[New-bugs-announce] [issue15640] Document deprecate importlib.abc.Finder

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

importlib.abc.Finder is no longer the proper level of abstraction for either meta path finders or path entry finders, so direct inheritance should be discouraged by documenting deprecation for the class (actual deprecation will need to be avoided as the constructor gets involved and having that error out if someone sets warnings to errors would be bad). Should probably also document as deprecated importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_module().

Also need to remember to update the inheritance hierarchy now added to the docs with a note next to the class about the deprecation (along with PyLoader and PyPycLoader).

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assignee: brett.cannon
components: Documentation
messages: 168138
nosy: barry, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Document deprecate importlib.abc.Finder
versions: Python 3.3

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