I'm not doing anything unusual.

Just to recap, I installed Python27 (in Windows 7 in my case- but this problem happens in Windows 10 too).

I did use `pip` to install packages as you'll see in the screenshot.  But even if i rename the `C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\backports` to `ignoreme-backports`.  When i change the PYTHONPATH (from within sys.path.insert(0, 'new_path/that/has/a/backports/dir/in/it');

import backports
print backports.__path__
# always prints: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\backports

The problem arises because the following code won't work in my program:

from import import ssl_match_hostname

^^ That throws an exception that the package doesn't exist.  It's debugging it to the __path__ being incorrect that caused me to create this ticket.