Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

(Roger, please see Bretts opening message.)
Brett, thanks for asking. We prefer to keep active codebases in sync as much as 
possible. Since new import stuff is not in 2.7, we will have to skip that.

In EditorWindow.py, the patch deletes the _find_module function that wraps 
imp.find_module and edits the EditorWindows class open_module method that used 
that method. I presume that the new code somewhere duplicates the extra work 
done in _find_module beyond that done by imp.find_module. I verified that these 
are the only idlelib/*.py occurrences of 'find_module' and '_find_module'. It 
applies to 3.3 with chunk 3 offset a line.

The only use of open_module is its binding to File / Open Module (Alt-M). This 
opens a module, given by its dotted import name, in the editor, instead of 
importing it. This works for stdlib modules before and after the patch. I tried 
both text selection and keyboard entry.

As noted in the code, and explained in #18064, open_module does not work for 
'current directory' modules. (A fix for that issue should wait for this one.)

I did not try anything exotic like a relative path (never used one, not sure of 
syntax), .pth (not used on current machine), or package directories. But I 
expect the new import code is more reliable for these. If there is a problem, 
people can always use the open dialog. So unless Roger sees something I missed, 
you have my green light to apply.

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keywords: +needs review, pep3121
versions: +Python 3.3

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