diff --git a/Lib/pkgutil.py b/Lib/pkgutil.py
index bdebfd2fc8ac32..98c375da69c0df 100644
--- a/Lib/pkgutil.py
+++ b/Lib/pkgutil.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):
         if self.path is None:
             path = None
         else:
-            path = [os.path.realpath(self.path)]
+            path = [self.path]
         try:
             file, filename, etc = imp.find_module(subname, path)
         except ImportError: