From 1e8838d4e44a366b2d4c162fdad2f9e3df18c0af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:28:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Decode data instead of Python specific open calls.

---
 setup.py | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cd5522e..7f9024c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
-import codecs
-import sys
-
 from setuptools import setup
 
 
-PYTHON3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
-
 def read_file(file):
-    if PYTHON3:
-        return open(file, encoding='utf-8').read()
-    else:
-        return codecs.open(file, encoding='utf-8').read()
+    with open(file, 'rb') as fh:
+        data = fh.read()
+
+    return data.decode('utf-8')
 
 setup(name='pyshp',
       version='2.0.0',