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Releases before 0.2.0 kept no changelog.

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A patcher for a submodule (urllib.request) could not reach it as an attribute of its package: the import system binds it only after the loader returns, so import urllib.request; urllib.request.X in the patcher's module failed ("cannot access submodule ... most likely due to a circular import") and the patch was skipped. The submodule is now bound on its package before its patchers run.

Hooks registered by entry point: a distribution declares [project.entry-points.importpatch] with <module> = "<dotted.patcher>". A function is called with the module right after it is imported; a module is called through its importpatch(name, module).
The wheel ships importpatch.pth: installing the package activates the hook in every interpreter of the environment, and uninstalling removes it. IMPORTPATCH_DISABLE=1 turns it off.
A module already imported when its hook is registered is patched at once.
importpatch.patches() lists the registry; importpatch.__version__.
Configuration files named pyimportpatch.cfg: a [module] section per module to patch, one patcher per line, patcher = false to disable one (an entry point's included). A system file (/etc/pyimportpatch.cfg, %PROGRAMDATA% on Windows, or $IMPORTPATCH_SYSTEM_CONFIG) and then the user's ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME, %APPDATA% on Windows, or $IMPORTPATCH_CONFIG) are applied over the entry points. Each variable may list several files separated by os.pathsep.
MIT license.

Modules are found by Python's own finders and their loader is wrapped, so packages, zip archives and other importable modules are patched; 0.1 found only .py files and package directories on sys.path.
A patcher that is missing or raises is logged on the importpatch logger and skipped; it no longer fails the import of the module it patches (a missing package did) and is no longer ignored silently. A configuration line that cannot be read is logged with the file and line number.
.pymodpatch.json (in the working directory, site-packages or ~) is no longer read; pyimportpatch.cfg replaces it, and the user file is not read under python -I or -s.
rm(target, patcher) is remove(target, patcher=None); remove(target) removes every patcher (in 0.1, rm(target, None) raised KeyError).
Packaged with pyproject.toml; the source distribution builds (0.1.3's lacked the VERSION file it read). Requires Python 3.9 or later.

python -m importpatch enable / disable: installing and uninstalling do this.
MODULES_TO_PATCH: use patches(), add() and remove().

After enable, every interpreter printed NameError: name 'file' is not defined at exit.