refactor: replace deprecated pkg_resources API

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ Unreleased
 
 *
 
+[2.0.1] - 2025-02-05
+**********************************************
+
+Changed
+=======
+
+* **Replaced `pkg_resources` with `importlib.resources`**  
+  - `pkg_resources` (from `setuptools`) is deprecated and may be removed in future Python versions.  
+  - Now using `importlib.resources`, the recommended alternative for managing package resources.  
+  - This improves performance and ensures better compatibility with modern Python versions.  
+
 [2.0.0] - 2025-01-23
 **********************************************
 

flow_control/__init__.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 Init for main Flow-Control XBlock
 """
 from .flow import FlowCheckPointXblock
-__version__ = '2.0.0'
+__version__ = '2.0.1'

flow_control/flow.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  either display the unit's content or take an alternative action """
 
 import logging
-import pkg_resources
+from importlib.resources import files as importlib_files
 import re
 
 from functools import reduce
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
 
 def load(path):
     """Handy helper for getting resources from our kit."""
-    data = pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, path)
-    return data.decode("utf8")
+    return importlib_files(__package__).joinpath(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
 
 
 def _actions_generator(block):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument

flow_control/tests/test_flowcontrol.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import ddt
 import unittest
 
-from mock import MagicMock, patch
+from mock import MagicMock, patch, mock_open
 # from xblock.core import XBlock
 from xblock.field_data import DictFieldData
 from flow_control.flow import FlowCheckPointXblock
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ def test_operators_generator(self):
         self.assertEqual(operators, operators_allowed)
 
     def test_load(self):
-        """
-        It should return the corresponding resource
-        """
-        path_mock = MagicMock()
-        with patch('pkg_resources.resource_string') as my_patch:
-            load(path_mock)
-            my_patch.assert_called_once_with('flow_control.flow', path_mock)
+        """It should return the corresponding resource"""
+        path_mock = "test_resource.txt"
+        mock_content = "mocked content"
+
+        with patch("pathlib.Path.open", mock_open(read_data=mock_content)):
+            result = load(path_mock)
+            self.assertEqual(result, mock_content)
 
     @ddt.data(
         'course-v1:Course+course+course',

setup.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 2.0.0
+current_version = 2.0.1
 commit = True
 tag = True