Python 3.7 equivalent of `importlib.resources.files`

I have an application that unfortunately does not support Python past 3.7. I have some code I'm trying to port (from Python 3.12) back to Python 3.7 that uses importlib.resources.files to get the path to some non-Python resources that are included in the package:

def _get_file (filename: str) -> bytes:
    """given a resource filename, return its contents"""
    res_path = importlib.resources.files("name.of.my.package")
    with importlib.resources.as_file(res_path) as the_path:
        page_path = os.path.join(the_path, filename)
        with open(page_path, "rb") as f:
            return f.read()

It seems like importlib.resources doesn't have a files() in Python 3.7.

What is the Python 3.7 compatible equivalent of this code?

I was able to get this working with the importlib-resources backport as per sinoroc's comment.

pip install importlib-resources

And then using it like:

import importlib_resources

def _get_file (filename: str) -> bytes:
    """given a resource filename, return its contents"""
    res_path = importlib_resources.files("name.of.my.package")
    with importlib_resources.as_file(res_path) as the_path:
        page_path = os.path.join(the_path, filename)
        with open(page_path, "rb") as f:
            return f.read()

So really the only code change was find/replacing importlib.resources with importlib_resources, it's just a drop-in replacement.

Note the PyPi page says Python >= 3.8 for this package, but it seems to work fine on 3.7, at least for the above usage.