[Python-checkins] gh-92417: `importlib` docs: remove references to unsupported Python versions (GH-92424) (GH-92979)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/37d60c0255f4404080e2a329b80b253c8221762d
commit: 37d60c0255f4404080e2a329b80b253c8221762d
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2022-05-19T18:11:25+02:00
summary:

gh-92417: `importlib` docs: remove references to unsupported Python versions (GH-92424) (GH-92979)

Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach at Gerlach.CAM>
(cherry picked from commit 70aa1b9b912d8254df3c61ae0a55464962f4c087)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood at Gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
M Doc/library/importlib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
index b3740178d6f9c..d40ed70d5cd83 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.metadata.rst
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 package metadata.  Built in part on Python's import system, this library
 intends to replace similar functionality in the `entry point
 API`_ and `metadata API`_ of ``pkg_resources``.  Along with
-:mod:`importlib.resources` in Python 3.7
-and newer (backported as `importlib_resources`_ for older versions of
-Python), this can eliminate the need to use the older and less efficient
+:mod:`importlib.resources` (with new features backported to the
+`importlib_resources`_ package), this can eliminate the need to use the older
+and less efficient
 ``pkg_resources`` package.
 
 By "installed package" we generally mean a third-party package installed into
diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 0241fb30b6efb..f19532213940e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -414,8 +414,8 @@ ABC hierarchy::
 
        .. versionadded:: 3.4
 
-       .. versionchanged:: 3.5
-          Starting in Python 3.6, this method will not be optional when
+       .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+          This method is no longer optional when
           :meth:`exec_module` is defined.
 
     .. method:: exec_module(module)
@@ -1273,8 +1273,7 @@ import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`.
 Importing a source file directly
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
-To import a Python source file directly, use the following recipe
-(Python 3.5 and newer only)::
+To import a Python source file directly, use the following recipe::
 
   import importlib.util
   import sys
@@ -1355,9 +1354,7 @@ Import itself is implemented in Python code, making it possible to
 expose most of the import machinery through importlib. The following
 helps illustrate the various APIs that importlib exposes by providing an
 approximate implementation of
-:func:`importlib.import_module` (Python 3.4 and newer for the importlib usage,
-Python 3.6 and newer for other parts of the code).
-::
+:func:`importlib.import_module`::
 
   import importlib.util
   import sys



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