The document of Python's import system tells that there are 3 default finders/importers (built-in, frozen, and the import path one). But when trying to get the repr of sys.meta_path, I got another _distutils_hack.DistutilsMetaFinder. What's this and what's it for? I've tried on 3.13 and 3.12, and they give similar results like: >>> import sys >>> sys.meta_path [<_distutils_hack.DistutilsMetaFinder object at 0x7f396eb1ba70>, <class '_frozen_importlib.BuiltinImporter'>, <class '_frozen_importlib.FrozenImporter'>, <class '_frozen_importlib_external.PathFinder'>] Continue reading...