[issue18809] Expose mtime check in importlib.machinery.FileFinder

Brett Cannon added the comment: So I tried extracting out the check by implementing a path_mtime() method on FileFinder, but then I realized it would simply be easier to abstract out _os.stat() to _path_stat() and let people cache stat calls at the global level, which would have a side-effect

[issue18809] Expose mtime check in importlib.machinery.FileFinder

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[issue18809] Expose mtime check in importlib.machinery.FileFinder

New submission from Brett Cannon: If you have enough control over your environment you really don't need to waste a stat call checking if the directory has been modified. That makes the idea of having the check of whether the directory has changed be exposed publicly a useful idea (code: http