bpo-43926: Cleaner metadata with PEP 566 JSON support. (GH-25565)

* bpo-43926: Cleaner metadata with PEP 566 JSON support.

* Add blurb

* Add versionchanged and versionadded declarations for changes to metadata.

* Use descriptor for PEP 566

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/importlib/metadata/_collections.py b/Lib/importlib/metadata/_collections.py
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+import collections
+
+
+# from jaraco.collections 3.3
+class FreezableDefaultDict(collections.defaultdict):
+    """
+    Often it is desirable to prevent the mutation of
+    a default dict after its initial construction, such
+    as to prevent mutation during iteration.
+
+    >>> dd = FreezableDefaultDict(list)
+    >>> dd[0].append('1')
+    >>> dd.freeze()
+    >>> dd[1]
+    []
+    >>> len(dd)
+    1
+    """
+
+    def __missing__(self, key):
+        return getattr(self, '_frozen', super().__missing__)(key)
+
+    def freeze(self):
+        self._frozen = lambda key: self.default_factory()
+
+
+class Pair(collections.namedtuple('Pair', 'name value')):
+    @classmethod
+    def parse(cls, text):
+        return cls(*map(str.strip, text.split("=", 1)))