bpo-46246: add missing __slots__ to importlib.metadata.DeprecatedList (…

…GH-30452)

Confirmed with @jaraco that this indeed needs a fix.

A question that came up while I was digging into the code: I think `SelectableGroups` could similarly use `__slots__ = ()`, since its purpose seems only for convenience around `dict`, not to have attributes of its own.

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:jaraco
(cherry picked from commit dd76b3f)

Co-authored-by: Arie Bovenberg <a.c.bovenberg@gmail.com>

Lib/importlib/metadata/__init__.py

@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ class DeprecatedList(list):
     1
     """
 
+    __slots__ = ()
+
     _warn = functools.partial(
         warnings.warn,
         "EntryPoints list interface is deprecated. Cast to list if needed.",

Lib/test/test_importlib/test_metadata_api.py

@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ def test_entry_points_groups_get(self):
             entry_points().get('entries', 'default') == entry_points()['entries']
             entry_points().get('missing', ()) == ()
 
+    def test_entry_points_allows_no_attributes(self):
+        ep = entry_points().select(group='entries', name='main')
+        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+            ep.foo = 4
+
     def test_metadata_for_this_package(self):
         md = metadata('egginfo-pkg')
         assert md['author'] == 'Steven Ma'

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-07-13-27-53.bpo-46246.CTLx32.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add missing ``__slots__`` to ``importlib.metadata.DeprecatedList``. Patch by
+Arie Bovenberg.