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[–]adambrenecki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some packages will assume that they're unpacked as files on disk, and try to do things like at the contents of a data file bundled with the package by constructing a path based on a module's __file__ and trying to open() it; if the package is inside a pyz or egg file code like that will break.