use pkgutil.resolve_name in unittest.mock

[graingert]

BPO	44686
Nosy	@graingert, @miss-islington, @ukarroum
PRs	bpo-44686 replace unittest.mock._importer with pkgutil.resolve_name #18544

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[graingert]

per https://bugs.python.org/issue12915 pkgutil.resolve_name was added for use in mock and other stdlib modules:

pydoc has locate and resolve, packaging has util.resolve_name, unittest has something else, etc.

[miss-islington]

New changeset ab7fcc8 by Thomas Grainger in branch 'main':
bpo-44686 replace unittest.mock._importer with pkgutil.resolve_name (GH-18544)
ab7fcc8

[ukarroum]

I think we can close this one