Replace lib imports with importlib (#192)

Co-authored-by: Florian CASTELAIN <castelain.florianext@matmut.fr>
Co-authored-by: Matthieu Monsch <1216372+mtth@users.noreply.github.com>

README.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ In [3]: with CLIENT.read('models/2.json', encoding='utf-8') as reader:
 
 ## Features
 
-* Python (2 and 3) bindings for the [WebHDFS][] (and [HttpFS][]) API,
+* Python 3 bindings for the [WebHDFS][] (and [HttpFS][]) API,
   supporting both secure and insecure clusters.
 * Command line interface to transfer files and start an interactive client
   shell, with aliases for convenient namenode URL caching.

hdfs/__init__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import logging as lg
 
 
-__version__ = '2.7.0'
+__version__ = '2.7.1'
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 
 

hdfs/config.py

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 from .client import Client
 from .util import HdfsError
 from functools import wraps
-from imp import load_source
 from logging.handlers import TimedRotatingFileHandler
 from six.moves.configparser import ParsingError, RawConfigParser
 from tempfile import gettempdir
@@ -21,6 +20,12 @@
 import os.path as osp
 import sys
 
+try:
+  # Python 3.12 and above
+  from importlib import load_source
+except ImportError:
+  # Below Python 3.12
+  from imp import load_source
 
 _logger = lg.getLogger(__name__)
 

test/test_examples.py

@@ -4,13 +4,18 @@
 """Test that the examples run correctly."""
 
 from hdfs import Config
-from imp import load_source
 from six import add_metaclass
 from test.util import _IntegrationTest
 import os
 import os.path as osp
 import pytest
 
+try:
+  # Python 3.12 and above
+  from importlib import load_source
+except ImportError:
+  # Below Python 3.12
+  from imp import load_source
 
 class _ExamplesType(type):