Still no patch from me, but I did create the rudiments of a shared script for poking around at the import internals (Tools/scripts/import_diagnostics.py)

Looking at Antoine's patch, I'd be happier with it if it *didn't* mutate the attributes of _frozen_importlib, but instead just added importlib._bootstrap as an alias for accessing it.

That would bring it in line with the way we handle os.path as being just an alias for the appropriate top level module:

>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.__name__
'posixpath'

Getting access to the source level _bootstrap implementation for testing purposes would then just require the usual techniques for bypassing C accelerators (specifically, using test.support.import_fresh_module with "_frozen_importlib" blocked).

That would address the immediate problem of module duplication, without misrepresenting what is going on in potentially confusing ways.