Python ImportError: cannot import name __version__

I'm trying to use requests and requests_oauthlib, and right now am just trying the dead simple Twitter verify credentials example they use in the documentation for requests_oauthlib to confirm I've got the basics working. I did a "pip install requests requests_oauthlib" to get the modules. In a terminal window I can "import requests" no problem but when I try "import requests_oauthlib" I get this:

>>> import requests_oauthlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_oauthlib/__init__.py", line 1, in
  <module>
    from .oauth1_auth import OAuth1
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_oauthlib/oauth1_auth.py", line 10, in  
  <module>
    from requests.utils import to_native_string
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/utils.py", line 23, in <module>
    from . import __version__
ImportError: cannot import name __version__

Line 23 of utils.py does indeed look like this:

from . import __version__

I'm using Python 2.7.5 on Fedora and am currently banging my head against this wall after multiple tries at getting it working, any help would be greatly appreciated...