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    Remove pytest version constraint (#22626) · 63574e12
    Jeremy Bowman authored
    Fix the issue that was preventing us from upgrading pytest.  pytest does some manipulation of test packages that prevents `pkg_resources` from loading resources from them, but used to contain a workaround for the problem.  That workaround was [removed](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/5392) in 4.6.0 as a performance enhancement when pytest switched from `pkg_resources` to `importlib-metadata` for its own entrypoint handling.  This tripped up one of our test modules which defined classes that loaded templates from inside a test package.  Moving these resources to the parent package fixes the problem.
    
    More and more, `pkg_resources` is being abandoned in favor of `importlib-metadata` and `importlib_resources` as they have a simpler design with much better performance.  However, `importlib_resources` doesn't support loading files from any directory which isn't itself a Python package (and doesn't allow direct use of paths including directories within the...
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