From 6256b3058204d61ca43bb0e3833e4e95441b63cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Quast <contact@jeffquast.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:40:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] this might help..
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This should prevent the following error,

```
$ pip --version
pip 18.1 from /Users/jq/.pyenv/versions/3.6.5/envs/jupyter/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
$ pip install colout
Collecting colout
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3d/ba/3ef31c0df3ace69271cc8b1af6b529f24de66ff42c0d99a8d18aa980a307/colout-0.5.tar.gz (47kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 970kB/s
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/0x/y8s2qlk558596kyqdhv3nwv40000gn/T/pip-install-gixoekff/colout/setup.py", line 25, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.md').read(),
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'README.md'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/0x/y8s2qlk558596kyqdhv3nwv40000gn/T/pip-install-gixoekff/colout/
```
---
 setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a79d0cf..33e99b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ setup(
     name='colout',
     version='0.6',
     description='Color Up Arbitrary Command Output.',
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    long_description=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.md')).read(),
     author='nojhan',
     author_email='nojhan@nojhan.net',
     url='http://nojhan.github.com/colout/',

From dab5555503b07fe3e1f730a2bdebd97f4b535c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: linkmauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:51:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update colout.py
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Python 2 will retire in thirteen days (see https://pythonclock.org/), there is no reason to keep obsolete checks in the code any longer.
---
 colout/colout.py | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/colout/colout.py b/colout/colout.py
index 29ca071..b346d0e 100755
--- a/colout/colout.py
+++ b/colout/colout.py
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ signal.signal( signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL )
 # Global variable(s)
 ###############################################################################
 
-PY2 = sys.version_info.major == 2
-
 context = {}
 debug = False
 
@@ -757,9 +755,6 @@ def write(colored, stream = sys.stdout):
     """
     Write "colored" on sys.stdout, then flush.
     """
-    if PY2: # If Python 2.x: force unicode
-        if isinstance(colored, unicode):
-            colored = colored.encode('utf-8')
     try:
         stream.write(colored)
         stream.flush()