This is related to fixing the refleaks introduced by commit 096d009. I haven't been able to find the leak yet, but these changes are a consequence of that effort. This includes some cleanup, some tweaks to the existing tests, and a bunch of new test cases. The only change here that might have impact outside the tests in question is in imp.py, where I update imp.load_dynamic() to use spec_from_file_location() instead of creating a ModuleSpec directly.
Also note that I've updated the tests to only skip if we're checking for refleaks (regrtest's --huntrleaks), whereas in gh-101969 I had skipped the tests entirely. The tests will be useful for some upcoming work and I'd rather the refleaks not hold that up. (It isn't clear how quickly we'll be able to fix the leaking code, though it will certainly be done in the short term.)
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102251
The new test exercises the most important variants for single-phase init extension modules. We also add some explanation about those variants to import.c.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/101758
This makes it more clear that a given test is definitely testing against a single-phase init (legacy) extension module. The new module is a companion to _testmultiphase.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/98627
Eric Snow