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Authored by dereckson on Sep 17 2025, 16:42.
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Summary

Currently, unit tests for Salt module and for scripts used the SourceFileLoader
class to manually load a specific script. The class load_module() method has
been deprecated for a while and won't be available in Python 3.12+.

Instead, we now use two strategies to import Python code:

  • treat _modules/ as a package folder by passing the path as PYTHONPATH
  • still use importlib for scripts, with compatible code

To import scripts directly with import can be a challenge, as roles like
"paas-docker" use dashes. The scripts filenames themselves contain dashes.

This fixes the following issue:
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:283: DeprecationWarning: the load_module() method
is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12; use exec_module() instead

Test Plan

On the T2123-improve-tests-suite branch to avoid distractions, make test
show every test pass without the deprecation warning.

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