Document importlib._bootstrap.NamespaceLoader

[brettcannon]

BPO	18056
Nosy	@warsaw, @brettcannon, @terryjreedy, @ericvsmith, @ericsnowcurrently

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closed_at = <Date 2021-10-21.21:30:41.298>
created_at = <Date 2013-05-25.15:45:51.751>
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title = 'Document importlib._bootstrap.NamespaceLoader'
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[brettcannon]

Is there a reason NamespaceLoader is undocumented?

[ericvsmith]

No reason I can think of, other than it never occurred to me to do it.

[terryjreedy]

Close this? As near as I can tell, there is currectly no doc for importlib._bootstrap ('_bootstrap' neither in Index nor importlib doc). Also, it does not currently contain NamespaceLoader (not in dir(importlib._bootstrap).

[ericsnowcurrently]

See bpo-35673. Also, it is actually in importlib._bootstrap_external.

[terryjreedy]

_bootstrap_external also appears to be undocumented. It does has _NamespaceLoader among its 77 entries.

[brettcannon]

This was taken care of by #29049.