Build with python 2.7.11: error on install

If I build catfish 1.3.4 with python 2.7.11, the install fails:

Catfish Data Directory: /usr/share/catfish/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 183, in <module>
    cmdclass={'install': InstallAndUpdateDataDirectory}
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line 100, in setup
    distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 163, in run
    update_config(self.install_lib, values)
  File "setup.py", line 37, in update_config
    fin = open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

I solved this with using codecs.open().