chore: replaces the deprecated pkg_resources with importlib

crowdsourcehinter/crowdsourcehinter.py

@@ -3,15 +3,19 @@
 import logging
 import random
 
-import pkg_resources
 import six.moves.html_parser
 import six.moves.urllib.error
 import six.moves.urllib.parse
 import six.moves.urllib.request
 from web_fragments.fragment import Fragment
 from xblock.core import XBlock
 from xblock.fields import Scope, Dict, List, String
+try:
+    from xblock.utils.resources import ResourceLoader
+except ModuleNotFoundError:  # For backward compatibility with releases older than Quince.
+    from xblockutils.resources import ResourceLoader
 
+resource_loader = ResourceLoader(__name__)
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 html_parser = six.moves.html_parser.HTMLParser()
 
@@ -442,8 +446,7 @@ def resource_string(self, path):
         """
         This function is used to get the path of static resources.
         """
-        data = pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, path)
-        return data.decode("utf8")
+        return resource_loader.load_unicode(path)
 
     def get_user_is_staff(self):
         """