diff --git a/setupegg.py b/setupegg.py
index 92ffa1b3f6b..7ba53286b1b 100755
--- a/setupegg.py
+++ b/setupegg.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 """Wrapper to run setup.py using setuptools."""
 import setuptools
-with open('setup.py', 'rb') as f:
+with open('setup.py') as f:
     exec(compile(f.read(), 'setup.py', 'exec'))