/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/google/protobuf/internal/encoder.py is in python-protobuf 2.4.1-1ubuntu2.
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It is a symlink to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/google/protobuf/internal/../../../../../../share/pyshared/google/protobuf/internal/encoder.py