Changelog

1.7.6 (2022-02-23)

Type	Description	PR	Issues	Author
Improvement	add full type hints to source code			@NiklasRosenstein

Type	Description	PR	Issues	Author
Refactor	modernize codebase, require Python 3.6 or newer			@NiklasRosenstein

.pth files are now evaluated when the localimport() constructor is called. Import statements in these files will still only be evaluated inside the context manager.

localimport.discover() now uses pkgutil.iter_modules() rather than pkgutil.walk_packages(): We only need to know the top-level package/module names and walk_packages() will cause actual packages to be imported in order to find submodules.

Fix localimport.autodisable() for Python 2 (where pkgutil.walk_packages() yields tuples instead of namedtuples).

Add localimport(do_autodisable) parameter which defaults to True (Note: different semantics apply)
Add localimport.discover()
Add localimport.autodisable()

fix #19 -- read README.rst as UTF-8 in setup.py
fix issue when the current working directory is used as one of the localimport paths
move non-member functions to global scope, out of the localimport class
add __author__ and version` to global scope

fix #17 where sys.modules changed size during iteration in localimport.__enter__() (Python 3)

add setup.py
add make_min and make_b64 commands to setup.py
fix possible error when localimport(parent_dir) parameter is not specified and the __file__ of the Python module that uses localimport is in the current working directory

fix possible KeyError when restoring namespace module paths
renamed _localimport class to localimport
localimport(parent_dir) parameter is now determined dynamically using sys._getframe()
support for [py-require][require]

Mockup pkg_resources.declare_namespace(), making it call pkgutil.extend_path() afterwards to ensure we find all available namespace paths

fixed possible KeyError and AttributeError when using the _localimport.disable() method

Fixed a bug where re-using the _localimport context added local modules back to sys.modules but removed them immediately (#15)

Fix #13, _extend_path() now keeps order of the paths
Updat class docstrings
Add do_eggs and do_pth parameters to the constructor
Fix #12, add _discover() method and automatic disabling of modules that could conflict with modules from the _localimport site

Fix #11, remove None-entries of namespace packages in sys.modules
_localimport._extend_path() is is now less tolerant about extending the namespace path and only does so when a __init__.{py,pyc,pyo} file exists in the parsed directory