[diffoscope] pip install not working anymore?

[Grigory Shamov]

Hi All,

$pip install diffoscope

Downloading/unpacking diffoscope
  Downloading diffoscope-77.tar.gz (466kB): 466kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/diffoscope/setup.py) egg_info
for package diffoscope
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/diffoscope/setup.py", line 30, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8').read(),
    TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_root/diffoscope/setup.py", line 30, in <module>

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

TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
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I have tried it on Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7; Python is 2.7.6 I believe.

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Grigory Shamov

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