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When opening a file known to be utf-8 on a script that needs to be Py2 & 3 compatible. Is there a nicer way to do it than this:

if sys.version_info < (3, 0): long_description = open('README').read() else: long_description = open('README', encoding='utf-8').read()

Calling open('README').read() on Python3.x causes encoding error for systems that default to ascii.

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You could use the io.open function, which is the built-in open() in Python 3.

from io import open long_description = open('README', encoding='utf-8').read()
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Use codecs.open. It's cross-Python compatible:

import codecs long_description = codecs.open('README', encoding='utf-8').read()
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