Error installing Fireant from Github

[mikeengland]

An exception is being raised

Collecting fireant[vertica] from git+https://github.com/kayak/fireant.git@master#egg=fireant[vertica] (from -r bandit/requirements.txt (line 51))
  Cloning https://github.com/kayak/fireant.git (to master) to /private/var/folders/k4/3gh_7drn1t78lh8hzlz8w6t08hdy18/T/pip-build-8g2fcnjb/fireant
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/k4/3gh_7drn1t78lh8hzlz8w6t08hdy18/T/pip-build-8g2fcnjb/fireant/setup.py", line 36, in <module>
        long_description=readme(),
      File "/private/var/folders/k4/3gh_7drn1t78lh8hzlz8w6t08hdy18/T/pip-build-8g2fcnjb/fireant/setup.py", line 12, in readme
        return f.read()
      File "/Users/mike/bin/../lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 7399: ordinal not in range(128)```

[twheys]

I fixed this by changing the README to be plain text. RST is not parsed by pypi and the raw text was being displayed there.