From baf36d0588b6069b1bc04cf9ce86a6ab84487cf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:56:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add compat function for importlib.util

---
 spacy/compat.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/compat.py b/spacy/compat.py
index 4ef24cd8b..7e69f3a61 100644
--- a/spacy/compat.py
+++ b/spacy/compat.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ is_osx = sys.platform == 'darwin'
 
 
 if is_python2:
+    import imp
     bytes_ = str
     unicode_ = unicode
     basestring_ = basestring
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ if is_python2:
     path2str = lambda path: str(path).decode('utf8')
 
 elif is_python3:
+    import importlib.util
     bytes_ = bytes
     unicode_ = str
     basestring_ = str
@@ -102,3 +104,12 @@ def normalize_string_keys(old):
     return new
 
 
+def import_file(name, loc):
+    loc = str(loc)
+    if is_python2:
+        return imp.load_source(name, loc)
+    else:
+        spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(name, str(init_file))
+        module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+        spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+        return module