kennethreitz/requests — pull request #2199 by mtorromeo (2014-09-03 07:42:02+00:00)
Title: Open README and HISTORY as utf-8 encoded files (fixes #2196)

This is a fix for #2196 where if you tried running setup.py with some LANG it would throws an exception when reading HISTORY with non-ascii characters.

Try it with

LANG=C python setup.py