pkg_resources.resource_stream fails on python3
Question: I am trying to load a resource which is present in my project using
`pkg_resources` but it just throws me an exception saying that it quote
**"Can't perform this operation for loaders without 'get_data()'"**. I am not
sure if I am doing something wrong here, or if `pkg_resources` is somehow
broken on python 3.3. I am using python 3.3.3 to be exact. Here is the code I
am trying to execute

    
    
    >>> import pkg_resources
    >>> data = pkg_resources.resource_stream('configgenerator', 'schema_rules.yml')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/home/users/frank/workspace/configgenerator/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.31-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 931, in resource_stream
        self, resource_name
      File "/home/users/frank/workspace/configgenerator/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.31-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1207, in get_resource_stream
        return StringIO(self.get_resource_string(manager, resource_name))
      File "/home/users/frank/workspace/configgenerator/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.31-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1210, in get_resource_string
        return self._get(self._fn(self.module_path, resource_name))
      File "/home/users/frank/workspace/configgenerator/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.31-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1289, in _get
        "Can't perform this operation for loaders without 'get_data()'"
    NotImplementedError: Can't perform this operation for loaders without 'get_data()'
    >>> 
    

Does anyone has an idea on how to fix this?


Answer: This can happen for a number of reasons, but the the most common is the the
package is not an importable module because there is no `__init__.py`.

