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>> Okay.  I guess you’ll use codecs.open in 2.7
> Oh, Python 2.7... DistributionMetadata of distutils encodes most
> values to byte strings (get_xxx() methods calls self._encode_field).
I forgot that.  No change is needed in 2.7.

> I checked, there is not bootstrap issue.
I was talking about bootstrapping if a change to use codecs was made.