[issue13959] Re-implement parts of imp in pure Python

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Once things all the import stuff currently on the table is wrapped up,
> I'll probably work on switching things over to using importlib directly.

Please leave distutils unchanged; we don’t clean it up or improve it in any way, it’s bugfixes only.  Changing packaging is fine; I’ll just keep using the imp module in the distutils2-python3 backport.

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