Before this change we end up duplicating effort and throwing away data in FrozenImporter.find_spec(). Now we do the work once in find_spec() and the only thing we do in FrozenImporter.exec_module() is turn the raw frozen data into a code object and then exec it.
We've added _imp.find_frozen(), add an arg to _imp.get_frozen_object(), and updated FrozenImporter. We've also moved some code around to reduce duplication, get a little more consistency in outcomes, and be more efficient.
Note that this change is mostly necessary if we want to set __file__ on frozen stdlib modules. (See https://bugs.python.org/issue21736.)
https://bugs.python.org/issue45324
Here's one more small cleanup that should have been in PR gh-28319. We eliminate stdout side-effects from importing the frozen __hello__ module, and update tests accordingly. We also move the module's source file into Lib/ from Toos/freeze/flag.py.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45019
Currently we freeze several modules into the runtime. For each of these modules it is essential to bootstrapping the runtime that they be frozen. Any other stdlib module that we later freeze into the runtime is not essential. We can just as well import from the .py file. This PR lets users explicitly choose which should be used, with the new "-X frozen_modules=[on|off]" CLI flag. The default is "off" for now.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45020
Previously __path__ was set to [__name__], but that could lead to bad
results if someone managed to circumvent the frozen importer and
somehow ended up with a finder that thought __name__ was a legit
directory/location.