[3.14] GH-137426: Remove code deprecation of importlib.abc.ResourceLoader (GH-137567) (#137654)

Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

Doc/library/importlib.rst

@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ ABC hierarchy::
     .. deprecated:: 3.7
        This ABC is deprecated in favour of supporting resource loading
        through :class:`importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`.
+       This class exists for backwards compatibility only with other ABCs in
+       this module.
 
     .. method:: get_data(path)
        :abstractmethod:

Lib/importlib/abc.py

@@ -64,21 +64,15 @@ def invalidate_caches(self):
 class ResourceLoader(Loader):
 
     """Abstract base class for loaders which can return data from their
-    back-end storage.
+    back-end storage to facilitate reading data to perform an import.
 
     This ABC represents one of the optional protocols specified by PEP 302.
 
+    For directly loading resources, use TraversableResources instead. This class
+    primarily exists for backwards compatibility with other ABCs in this module.
+
     """
 
-    def __init__(self):
-        import warnings
-        warnings.warn('importlib.abc.ResourceLoader is deprecated in '
-                      'favour of supporting resource loading through '
-                      'importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources.',
-                      DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
-        super().__init__()
-
-
     @abc.abstractmethod
     def get_data(self, path):
         """Abstract method which when implemented should return the bytes for

Lib/test/test_importlib/test_abc.py

@@ -224,15 +224,7 @@ class ResourceLoaderDefaultsTests(ABCTestHarness):
     SPLIT = make_abc_subclasses(ResourceLoader)
 
     def test_get_data(self):
-        with (
-            self.assertRaises(IOError),
-            self.assertWarnsRegex(
-                DeprecationWarning,
-                r"importlib\.abc\.ResourceLoader is deprecated in favour of "
-                r"supporting resource loading through importlib\.resources"
-                r"\.abc\.TraversableResources.",
-            ),
-        ):
+        with self.assertRaises(IOError):
             self.ins.get_data('/some/path')
 
 
@@ -936,12 +928,7 @@ def get_filename(self, fullname):
 
             def path_stats(self, path):
                 return {'mtime': 1}
-        with self.assertWarnsRegex(
-            DeprecationWarning,
-            r"importlib\.abc\.ResourceLoader is deprecated in favour of "
-            r"supporting resource loading through importlib\.resources"
-            r"\.abc\.TraversableResources.",
-        ):
+
         loader = DummySourceLoader()
 
         with self.assertWarnsRegex(
@@ -952,17 +939,5 @@ def path_stats(self, path):
             loader.path_mtime('foo.py')
 
 
-class ResourceLoaderDeprecationWarningsTests(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Tests ResourceLoader deprecation warnings."""
-
-    def test_deprecated_resource_loader(self):
-        from importlib.abc import ResourceLoader
-        class DummyLoader(ResourceLoader):
-            def get_data(self, path):
-                return b''
-
-        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
-            DummyLoader()
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-08-15-00-38.gh-issue-137426.lW-Rk2.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Remove the code deprecation of ``importlib.abc.ResourceLoader``. It is
+documented as deprecated, but left for backwards compatibility with other
+classes in ``importlib.abc``.