Merge pull request #4 from pudo/master

fix file reading in python 3

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f9d5c5a..f632989 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 import re
 import os
 import sys
+import codecs
 
 
 name = 'python-slugify'
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ def get_version(package):
     """
     Return package version as listed in `__version__` in `init.py`.
     """
-    init_py = open(os.path.join(package, '__init__.py')).read()
+    init_py = codecs.open(os.path.join(package, '__init__.py'), encoding='utf-8').read()
     return re.search("^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]", init_py, re.MULTILINE).group(1)