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setup.py includes the text of README.rst using open('README.rst').read(). The default behavior for open is to open the file in text mode using the system's preferred encoding to decode the file. Since nap's README.rst contains unicode characters encoded in UTF-8, the default behavior of open can cause installation to break on systems that have a different preferred encoding.

nap's setup.py should explicitly specify UTF-8 as the encoding when reading README.rst. While Python 3's open supports passing an encoding= keyword argument, Python 2.7's open does not. I think codecs.open('README.rst', encoding='utf8') could work across Python 2 & 3.