(torchx/entrypoints) Use importlib.metadata instead of the backported importlib_metadata (#1087)

Summary:

torchx dropped support for python<=3.7 2 years ago (see: #728). But we kept using the backported `importlib_metadata` module to load configurations from `entry_points`.

Reviewed By: highker

Differential Revision: D77619564

Author: kiukchung

requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 pyre-extensions
 docstring-parser>=0.8.1
-importlib-metadata
 pyyaml
 docker
 filelock

torchx/util/entrypoints.py

@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@
 
 # pyre-strict
 
+from importlib import metadata
+from importlib.metadata import EntryPoint
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
-import importlib_metadata as metadata
-from importlib_metadata import EntryPoint
+
+# pyre-ignore-all-errors[3, 2, 16]
 
 
-# pyre-ignore-all-errors[3, 2]
 def load(group: str, name: str, default=None):
     """
     Loads the entry point specified by
@@ -30,13 +31,30 @@ def load(group: str, name: str, default=None):
     raises an error.
     """
 
-    entrypoints = metadata.entry_points().select(group=group)
+    # return type of importlib.metadata.entry_points() is different between python-3.9 and python-3.10
+    # https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/importlib.metadata.html#importlib.metadata.entry_points
+    # https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/importlib.metadata.html#importlib.metadata.entry_points
+    if hasattr(metadata.entry_points(), "select"):
+        # python>=3.10
+        entrypoints = metadata.entry_points().select(group=group)
 
-    if name not in entrypoints.names and default is not None:
-        return default
+        if name not in entrypoints.names and default is not None:
+            return default
+
+        ep = entrypoints[name]
+        return ep.load()
 
-    ep = entrypoints[name]
-    return ep.load()
+    else:
+        # python<3.10 (e.g. 3.9)
+        # metadata.entry_points() returns tuple[EntryPoint] (not EntryPoints) in python-3.9
+        entrypoints = metadata.entry_points().get(group, ())
+
+        for ep in entrypoints:
+            if ep.name == name:
+                return ep.load()
+
+        # [group].name not found
+        return default
 
 
 def _defer_load_ep(ep: EntryPoint) -> object:
@@ -49,7 +67,6 @@ def run(*args: object, **kwargs: object) -> object:
     return run
 
 
-# pyre-ignore-all-errors[3, 2]
 def load_group(
     group: str, default: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, skip_defaults: bool = False
 ):

torchx/util/test/entrypoints_test.py

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 
 import unittest
 from configparser import ConfigParser
+
+from importlib.metadata import EntryPoint, EntryPoints
 from types import ModuleType
 from typing import List
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
-from importlib_metadata import EntryPoint, EntryPoints
-
 from torchx.util.entrypoints import load, load_group