test_importlib incorrectly relies on <module>.__builtins__

[ericsnowcurrently]

BPO	21499
Nosy	@brettcannon, @ericsnowcurrently

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[ericsnowcurrently]

Per the docs*, a module's __builtins__ may be a module or a dict or even missing. However, test.test_importlib.test_api.ReloadTests checks __builtins__ as part of several tests. Instead, the tests should ignore __bulitins__. I'll push a patch in a minute that fixes that.

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html

[python-dev]

New changeset 16d26391ec36 by Eric Snow in branch '3.4':
Issue bpo-21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/16d26391ec36

New changeset bdf94b2c0639 by Eric Snow in branch 'default':
Merge from 3.4 (for bpo-21499).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bdf94b2c0639