While "requests" doesn't fail on import anything that uses egginfo fails. For example, $ pkg install py27-acme $ jws Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/jws", line 6, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3037, in <module> @_call_aside File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3021, in _call_aside f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3050, in _initialize_master_working_set working_set = WorkingSet._build_master() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 657, in _build_master return cls._build_from_requirements(__requires__) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 670, in _build_from_requirements dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment()) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 855, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'urllib3<1.22,>=1.21.1' distribution was not found and is required by requests
Doh, I didn't try hard enough to try an existing bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 220927 ***