Brett Cannon added the comment: It looks like as long as you block _frozen_importlib and do a fresh import of importlib you can make sure to use the source version of importlib._bootstrap instead of _frozen_importlib.
>>> from test.support import import_fresh_module >>> mod = import_fresh_module('importlib.abc', fresh=('importlib',), >>> blocked=('_frozen_importlib',)) >>> mod <module 'importlib.abc' from '/Users/bcannon/Repositories/cpython/default/Lib/importlib/abc.py'> >>> mod._bootstrap <module 'importlib._bootstrap' from '/Users/bcannon/Repositories/cpython/default/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py'> >>> mod._frozen_importlib >>> import importlib >>> importlib._bootstrap <module 'importlib._bootstrap' (frozen)> >>> mod2 = import_fresh_module('importlib', blocked=('_frozen_importlib',)) >>> mod2 <module 'importlib' from '/Users/bcannon/Repositories/cpython/default/Lib/importlib/__init__.py'> >>> mod2._bootstrap <module 'importlib._bootstrap' from '/Users/bcannon/Repositories/cpython/default/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py'> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16803> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com