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-rwxr-xr-xsetuptools/command/egg_info.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
index 30873e19..4f5c9694 100755
--- a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
@@ -304,7 +304,8 @@ def write_file(filename, contents):
sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
"""
contents = "\n".join(contents)
- contents = contents.encode("utf-8")
+ if sys.version_info >= (3,):
+ contents = contents.encode("utf-8")
f = open(filename, "wb") # always write POSIX-style manifest
f.write(contents)
f.close()