TypeError in pkg_resources.resource_stream on Python 3

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Originally reported by: jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco)

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The use of StringIO in pkg_resources.resource_stream appears to be causing errors in setuptools 0.8:

> python
Python 3.3.2 (v3.3.2:d047928ae3f6, May 16 2013, 00:06:53) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pkg_resources.require('pytz')[0].version
'2013b'
>>> import pytz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1567, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1534, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\pytz-2013b-py3.3.egg\pytz\__init__.py", line 1103, in <module>
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\pytz-2013b-py3.3.egg\pytz\__init__.py", line 1103, in <listcomp>
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\pytz-2013b-py3.3.egg\pytz\__init__.py", line 107, in resource_exists
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\pytz-2013b-py3.3.egg\pytz\__init__.py", line 100, in open_resource
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.8b5-py3.3.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 951, in resource_stream
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.8b5-py3.3.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 1405, in get_resource_stream
  File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.8b5-py3.3.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 1982, in StringIO
TypeError: initial_value must be str or None, not bytes

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/32

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Fixed in 26f59ec0f0f6, slated for 0.8b6+