diff --git a/openpype/vendor/python/python_2/charset_normalizer.py b/openpype/vendor/python/python_2/charset_normalizer.py
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+"""Fake 'charset_normalizer' for Python 2 to raise ImportError.
+
+Needed for 'requests' module which first checks for existence of
+'charset_normalizer' (Python 3) but does not raise 'ImportError' but
+'SyntaxError'.
+"""
+
+raise ImportError("charset_normalizer not available")