Stop using deprecated importlib.resources functions (#529)

* Stop using deprecated importlib.resources functions

* Add news fragment

* Run CI Mypy on 3.11

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -149,10 +149,10 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python:
-          # Using second most recent minor release for whatever little
-          # increase in stability over using the latest minor.
-          - name: CPython 3.9
-            python-version: '3.9'
+          # Use a recent version to avoid having common disconnects between
+          # local development setups and CI.
+          - name: CPython 3.11
+            python-version: '3.11'
         task:
           - name: Check Newsfragment
             nox: check_newsfragment

noxfile.py

@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ def check_newsfragment(session: nox.Session) -> None:
 
 @nox.session
 def typecheck(session: nox.Session) -> None:
-    session.install(".", "mypy")
+    # Click 8.1.4 is bad type hints -- lets not complicate packaging and only
+    # pin here.
+    session.install(".", "mypy", "click!=8.1.4")
     session.run("mypy", "src")
 
 

src/towncrier/_settings/load.py

@@ -161,8 +161,9 @@ def parse_toml(base_path: str, config: Mapping[str, Any]) -> Config:
         package, resource = template.split(":", 1)
         if not Path(resource).suffix:
             resource += ".md" if markdown_file else ".rst"
-        if not resources.is_resource(package, resource):
-            if resources.is_resource(package + ".templates", resource):
+
+        if not _pkg_file_exists(package, resource):
+            if _pkg_file_exists(package + ".templates", resource):
                 package += ".templates"
             else:
                 raise ConfigError(
@@ -190,3 +191,10 @@ def parse_toml(base_path: str, config: Mapping[str, Any]) -> Config:
 
     # Return the parsed config.
     return Config(**parsed_data)
+
+
+def _pkg_file_exists(pkg: str, file: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check whether *file* exists within *pkg*.
+    """
+    return resources.files(pkg).joinpath(file).is_file()

src/towncrier/build.py

@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ def __main(
 
     click.echo("Loading template...", err=to_err)
     if isinstance(config.template, tuple):
-        template = resources.read_text(*config.template)
+        template = (
+            resources.files(config.template[0]).joinpath(config.template[1]).read_text()
+        )
     else:
         with open(config.template, encoding="utf-8") as tmpl:
             template = tmpl.read()