Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8
instead of the locale encoding.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 02cd79b..8ca5b6f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -1010,11 +1010,9 @@
def write_pkg_info(self, base_dir):
"""Write the PKG-INFO file into the release tree.
"""
- pkg_info = open(os.path.join(base_dir, 'PKG-INFO'), 'w')
- try:
+ with open(os.path.join(base_dir, 'PKG-INFO'), 'w',
+ encoding='UTF-8') as pkg_info:
self.write_pkg_file(pkg_info)
- finally:
- pkg_info.close()
def write_pkg_file(self, file):
"""Write the PKG-INFO format data to a file object.