pkgutil.get_data() is a wrapper for a deprecated class

[KevinNorris]

BPO	35319
Nosy	@brettcannon

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[KevinNorris]

pkgutil.get_data()'s documentation1 says it is a wrapper for importlib.abc.ResourceLoader.get_data(), but the latter's documentation2 says the whole class is deprecated since 3.7.

Please either:

A. Formally deprecate pkgutil.get_data() (and ideally provide a "nice" alternative wrapper, so that I don't have to muck about with importlib's endless heterarchy of opaque objects which return other opaque objects).
B. Modify pkgutil.get_data() to use ResourceReader instead of ResourceLoader.
C. (A) or (B) has already been done, just document it.

[brettcannon]

You can use importlib.resources to read data files and such from within a package as an alternative.