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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/uploading.rst5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst b/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
index 7b790b1..fd0c508 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
@@ -57,8 +57,11 @@ in the package::
from distutils.core import setup
+ with open('README.txt') as file:
+ long_description = file.read()
+
setup(name='Distutils',
- long_description=open('README.txt'))
+ long_description=long_description)
In that case, :file:`README.txt` is a regular reStructuredText text file located
in the root of the package besides :file:`setup.py`.