[3.7] bpo-34572: change _pickle unpickling to use import rather than retrieving from sys.modules (GH-9047) by miss-islington · Pull Request #11921

[3.7] bpo-34572: change _pickle unpickling to use import rather than retrieving from sys.modules (GH-9047) by miss-islington · Pull Request #11921 · python/cpython

…ving from sys.modules (pythonGH-9047)

Fix C implementation of pickle.loads to use importlib's locking mechanisms, and thereby avoid using partially-loaded modules.
(cherry picked from commit 4371c0a)

Co-authored-by: tjb900 <ozburgess@gmail.com>

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Feb 18, 2019