Issue #97850 is the meta issue tracking removals of long deprecated functions from importlib. This ticket tracks just the removals of the following previously deprecated APIs:

• find_loader()
• find_module()
• imp module
• importlib.abc.Finder
• pkgutil.ImpImporter
• pkgutil.ImpLoader

• @brettcannon @ericsnowcurrently

Linked PRs

• gh-98040: Remove just the imp module #98573
• gh-98040: Move the Single-Phase Init Tests Out of test_imp #102561
• gh-98040: Remove find_loader, find_module and other deprecated APIs #98059
• GH-98040: Suppress cross-references to the removed imp module #104131
• gh-98040: Fix importbench: use types.ModuleType() #105743
• [3.12] gh-98040: Fix importbench: use types.ModuleType() (GH-105743) #105754