diff -r 00ec93889b88 Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
--- a/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst	Tue Feb 22 20:24:33 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst	Tue Feb 22 21:56:29 2011 +0100
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     from distutils.core import setup
 
     setup(name='Distutils',
-          long_description=open('README.txt'))
+          long_description=open('README.txt').read())
 
 In that case, :file:`README.txt` is a regular reStructuredText text file located
 in the root of the package besides :file:`setup.py`.