⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbotAMD64 Windows10 3.x has failed when building commit3e0fec7.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Checkthe buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/146/builds/4915) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (3e0fec7) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/146/builds/4915

Failed tests:

• test_importlib

Failed subtests:

• test_read_text - test.test_importlib.test_metadata_api.APITests.test_read_text

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

== Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE ==

399 tests OK.

10 slowest tests:

• test_math: 6 min 34 sec
• test_asyncio: 4 min 43 sec
• test_tokenize: 3 min 42 sec
• test_multiprocessing_spawn: 3 min 41 sec
• test_lib2to3: 2 min 52 sec
• test_capi: 2 min 30 sec
• test_unparse: 1 min 57 sec
• test_concurrent_futures: 1 min 46 sec
• test_unicodedata: 1 min 42 sec
• test_compileall: 1 min 33 sec

1 test failed:
test_importlib

34 tests skipped:
test_clinic test_curses test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_devpoll
test_epoll test_fcntl test_fork1 test_gdb test_grp test_ioctl
test_kqueue test_multiprocessing_fork
test_multiprocessing_forkserver test_nis test_openpty
test_ossaudiodev test_peg_generator test_perf_profiler test_pipes
test_poll test_posix test_pty test_pwd test_readline test_resource
test_spwd test_syslog test_threadsignals test_wait3 test_wait4
test_xxlimited test_xxtestfuzz test_zipfile64

1 re-run test:
test_importlib

Total duration: 20 min 48 sec

Traceback (most recent call last):  File"D:\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows10\build\Lib\test\test_importlib\test_metadata_api.py", line86, intest_read_text    top_level= [^IndexError:list index out of range

Originally posted by@bedevere-bot in#103584 (comment)

Linked PRs

• gh-103661: Skip failing test on Windows. #103662
• gh-103661: Apply bugfix from importlib_metadata 6.5.1 and restore test. #103681