From d8a425e00d05c0cd0896b6e684b18304c6bbf717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:05:43 -0500
Subject: In resolve version, always cast to a string (avoiding Unicode on
 Python 2). Fixes #476.

---
 CHANGES.txt | 7 +++++++
 ez_setup.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 4e71bd72..3764d799 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ CHANGES
 =======
 
 
+------
+19.1.1
+------
+
+* Issue #476: Cast version to string (using default encoding)
+  to avoid creating Unicode types on Python 2 clients.
+
 ----
 19.1
 ----
diff --git a/ez_setup.py b/ez_setup.py
index 1320ac92..39ea44bc 100644
--- a/ez_setup.py
+++ b/ez_setup.py
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ def _resolve_version(version):
         reader = codecs.getreader(charset)
         doc = json.load(reader(resp))
 
-    return doc['info']['version']
+    return str(doc['info']['version'])
 
 
 def _build_install_args(options):
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