diff -r bb67b810aac1 Doc/includes/email-simple.py
--- a/Doc/includes/email-simple.py	Mon Feb 23 07:56:13 2015 -0800
+++ b/Doc/includes/email-simple.py	Tue Feb 24 21:03:33 2015 +0100
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
 # the text file contains only ASCII characters.
-fp = open(textfile, 'rb')
+fp = open(textfile, 'r')
 # Create a text/plain message
 msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
 fp.close()