From 2ba8fd5bc50f293fea11a863c2b8c4dc3488762b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 01:05:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Re-export importlib.metadata from _pytest.compat (#9906)

I'm fixing a bug in mypy's --no-implicit-reexport logic in
https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/12704 and mypy-primer flagged this
---
 changelog/9906.trivial.rst | 1 +
 src/_pytest/compat.py      | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog/9906.trivial.rst

diff --git a/changelog/9906.trivial.rst b/changelog/9906.trivial.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8911b7190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/9906.trivial.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Made ``_pytest.compat`` re-export ``importlib_metadata`` in the eyes of type checkers.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/compat.py b/src/_pytest/compat.py
index e4c2a5fda..8b77de28f 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/compat.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/compat.py
@@ -50,9 +50,11 @@ NOTSET: "Final" = NotSetType.token  # noqa: E305
 # fmt: on
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
-    from importlib import metadata as importlib_metadata
+    import importlib.metadata
+
+    importlib_metadata = importlib.metadata
 else:
-    import importlib_metadata  # noqa: F401
+    import importlib_metadata as importlib_metadata  # noqa: F401
 
 
 def _format_args(func: Callable[..., Any]) -> str: