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importlib_resources is a backport of Python standard libraryimportlib.resourcesmodule for older Pythons.

The key goal of this module is to replace parts ofpkg_resources with asolution in Python's stdlib that relies on well-defined APIs. This makesreading resources included in packages easier, with more stable and consistentsemantics.

New features are introduced in this third-party library and later mergedinto CPython. The following table indicates which versions of this librarywere contributed to different versions in the standard library:

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