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+"""Subset of importlib.abc used to reduce importlib.util imports."""
+from . import _bootstrap
+import abc
+
+
+class Loader(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
+
+    """Abstract base class for import loaders."""
+
+    def create_module(self, spec):
+        """Return a module to initialize and into which to load.
+
+        This method should raise ImportError if anything prevents it
+        from creating a new module.  It may return None to indicate
+        that the spec should create the new module.
+        """
+        # By default, defer to default semantics for the new module.
+        return None
+
+    # We don't define exec_module() here since that would break
+    # hasattr checks we do to support backward compatibility.
+
+    def load_module(self, fullname):
+        """Return the loaded module.
+
+        The module must be added to sys.modules and have import-related
+        attributes set properly.  The fullname is a str.
+
+        ImportError is raised on failure.
+
+        This method is deprecated in favor of loader.exec_module(). If
+        exec_module() exists then it is used to provide a backwards-compatible
+        functionality for this method.
+
+        """
+        if not hasattr(self, 'exec_module'):
+            raise ImportError
+        return _bootstrap._load_module_shim(self, fullname)
+
+    def module_repr(self, module):
+        """Return a module's repr.
+
+        Used by the module type when the method does not raise
+        NotImplementedError.
+
+        This method is deprecated.
+
+        """
+        # The exception will cause ModuleType.__repr__ to ignore this method.
+        raise NotImplementedError