From b7ca6f4a66202ced70ebd87df169aebb41ebb81d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ed <s@ocv.me>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:07:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] try to fix #300

the importlib stuff broke early versions of py2.7
---
 copyparty/util.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/copyparty/util.py b/copyparty/util.py
index ae968777..4e5cbfbe 100644
--- a/copyparty/util.py
+++ b/copyparty/util.py
@@ -4186,7 +4186,14 @@ def load_resource(E: EnvParams, name: str, mode="rb") -> IO[bytes]:
                 stream = codecs.getreader(enc)(stream)
             return stream
 
-    return open(os.path.join(E.mod, name), mode, encoding=enc)
+    ap = os.path.join(E.mod, name)
+
+    if PY2:
+        import codecs
+
+        return codecs.open(ap, "r", encoding=enc)  # type: ignore
+
+    return open(ap, mode, encoding=enc)
 
 
 class Pebkac(Exception):