From bc538e38527bf836291be5b6ac28644b27abd07e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:13:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #28424: Document pkgutil.get_data() doesn't work with
 namespace packages.

Thanks to Douglas Greiman for the patch.
---
 Doc/library/pkgutil.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst b/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst
index abeac62952..b9e76f7ba3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst
@@ -219,4 +219,6 @@ support.
 
    If the package cannot be located or loaded, or it uses a :term:`loader`
    which does not support :meth:`get_data <importlib.abc.ResourceLoader.get_data>`,
-   then ``None`` is returned.
+   then ``None`` is returned.  In particular, the :term:`loader` for
+   :term:`namespace packages <namespace package>` does not support
+   :meth:`get_data <importlib.abc.ResourceLoader.get_data>`.
-- 
2.40.0