From ff4cd2a5e95311590b8ce9f2de9f89f48de68041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:43:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] python2.7 compatibility

---
 python/setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 8071af2a7f..aeb5b2d881 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if version_info.major >= 3:
 else:
     pkgs = ['lammps']
 
-with open("README", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+with open("README", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 if libname: