[issue25330] Docs for pkgutil.get_data inconsistent with semantics

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon added the comment:

This can't change in Python 2.7 because of backwards-compatibility. And I would argue this isn't a serious security risk as pkgutil.get_data() typically works with string constants and values provided by the library and not user-provided values. This is basically the same as taking a value for open() and has the same risks.

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