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setup.py

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
-import os
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 from ws4redis import __version__
+try:
+    from pypandoc import convert
+except ImportError:
+    import io
+
+    def convert(filename, fmt):
+        with io.open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as fd:
+            return fd.read()
 
 DESCRIPTION = 'Websocket support for Django using Redis as datastore'
 
@@ -22,19 +33,13 @@
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
 ]
 
-
-def read(fname):
-    readme_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)
-    return os.popen('[ -x "$(which pandoc 2>/dev/null)" ] && pandoc -t rst {0} || cat {0}'.format(readme_file)).read()
-
-
 setup(
     name='django-websocket-redis',
     version=__version__,
     author='Jacob Rief',
     author_email='jacob.rief@gmail.com',
     description=DESCRIPTION,
-    long_description=read('README.md'),
+    long_description=convert('README.md', 'rst'),
     url='https://github.com/jrief/django-websocket-redis',
     license='MIT',
     keywords=['django', 'websocket', 'redis'],