From f64febd39b1b29a97b07d9028d5f7974fa739e0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: M Pacer <mpacer@berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:58:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add io import and use io.open for specifying py2/3 compat
 encoding

---
 setup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 282f6e6f4..d10f8f938 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 
 import os
 import setuptools
+import io
 
 from setuptools.command.bdist_egg import bdist_egg
 
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ def run(self):
 with open(pjoin(here, name, '_version.py')) as f:
     exec(f.read(), {}, version_ns)
 
-with open(pjoin(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+with io.open(pjoin(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
 setup_args = dict(