Vinay Sajip added the comment:

There is a bug in distlib.resources.

As far as I know, this is no longer the case - a change was made in distlib.resources to get around the problem: https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distlib/src/471427909ebbba2f4fa9f4cbc34f17... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20140> _______________________________________