Avoid deprecated load_module() in pkg_resources namespace delaration

Fixes: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2493

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/changelog.d/2493.change.rst b/changelog.d/2493.change.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2c46932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/2493.change.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Use importlib.import_module() rather than the deprectated loader.load_module()
+in pkg_resources namespace delaration -- by :user:`encukou`
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 737f4d5f..99b7f680 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import itertools
 import inspect
 import ntpath
 import posixpath
+import importlib
 from pkgutil import get_importer
 
 try:
@@ -2209,7 +2210,7 @@ def _handle_ns(packageName, path_item):
     if subpath is not None:
         path = module.__path__
         path.append(subpath)
-        loader.load_module(packageName)
+        importlib.import_module(packageName)
         _rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
     return subpath