diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 38e604943a..a358d0a031 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ from litellm.types.utils import (
     all_litellm_params,
 )
 
-with resources.open_text(
-    "litellm.litellm_core_utils.tokenizers", "anthropic_tokenizer.json"
-) as f:
+with resources.files("litellm.litellm_core_utils.tokenizers") \
+    .joinpath("anthropic_tokenizer.json") \
+    .open("r") as f:
     json_data = json.load(f)
 # Convert to str (if necessary)
 claude_json_str = json.dumps(json_data)