code: def get_shared(fname, encoding="utf-8"):
      
      relative_path = "share/dose/v{0}/{1}".format(__version__, fname)
      prefixed_path = os.path.join(sys.prefix, *relative_path.split("/"))
  
      # Look for the file directly on sys.prefix
      try:
          return "\n".join(read_plain_text(prefixed_path, encoding=encoding))
      except IOError:
          pass
  
      # Homebrew (Mac OS X) stores the data in Cellar, a directory in
      # the system prefix. Calling "brew --prefix" returns that prefix,
      # and pip installs the shared resources there
      cellar_index = sys.prefix.find("/Cellar/")
      if cellar_index != -1: # Found!
          outside_cellar_path = os.path.join(sys.prefix[:cellar_index],
                                             *relative_path.split("/"))
          try:
              return "\n".join(read_plain_text(outside_cellar_path,
                                               encoding=encoding))
          except IOError:
              pass
  
      # Fallback: look for the file using setuptools (perhaps it's still
      # compressed inside an egg file or stored otherwhere)
      from pkg_resources import Requirement, resource_string
      return resource_string(Requirement.parse("dose"), relative_path)
docs: Loads the string data from a text file that was packaged as a
      data file in the distribution.
  
      Uses the setuptools ``pkg_resources.resource_string`` function as
      a fallback, as installing Dose with it directly instead of using
      wheel/pip would store the setup.py ``data_files`` otherwhere. For
      more information, see this:
  
      https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/130