Move ensurepip off of pkgutil and to importlib.resources

[brettcannon]

BPO	37449
Nosy	@warsaw, @brettcannon, @jaraco, @wimglenn, @miss-islington, @nanjekyejoannah
PRs	bpo-37449: Move ensurepip off of pkgutil and to importlib.resources #15109 bpo-37449: ensurepip uses importlib.resources.files() traversable APIs #22659

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2019-09-17.18:21:07.724>
created_at = <Date 2019-06-30.02:12:52.217>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.9']
title = 'Move ensurepip off of pkgutil and to importlib.resources'
updated_at = <Date 2021-06-07.02:14:53.896>
user = 'https://github.com/brettcannon'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2021-06-07.02:14:53.896>
actor = 'jaraco'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2019-09-17.18:21:07.724>
closer = 'brett.cannon'
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2019-06-30.02:12:52.217>
creator = 'brett.cannon'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 37449
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 4.0
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pr_nums = ['15109', '22659']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue37449'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

[brettcannon]

ensurepip is using pkgutil.get_data() which isn't as clean as importlib.resources for reading data from within a package.

[nanjekyejoannah]

To be exact, the change should use importlib.resources.read_binary which reads bytes like pkgutil.get_data().

[miss-islington]

New changeset 2ccb50c by Miss Islington (bot) (Joannah Nanjekye) in branch 'master':
bpo-37449: Move ensurepip off of pkgutil and to importlib.resources (GH-15109)
2ccb50c

[jaraco]

New changeset afb2eed by wim glenn in branch 'main':
bpo-37449: ensurepip uses importlib.resources.files() traversable APIs (bpo-22659)
afb2eed