[issue21062] Evalute all import-related modules for best practices

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

I'm thinking of:

* pkgutil
* py_compile
* compileall
* modulefinder
* freeze

Should make sure they are (a) doing the right/best thing in the face of importlib/PEP 302/PEP 420/PEP 451, and (b) if they should be integrated into importlib somehow in a non-compatible fashion for future growth and let the old versions slowly wither away.

I'm leaving out runpy as it's not directly import-related, just import-reliant, and zipimport because I don't want to touch its code. =)

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messages: 214833
nosy: brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Evalute all import-related modules for best practices

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