diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -438,7 +438,9 @@
     else:
         version = '0+hg' + kw.get('node', '')[:12]
 elif os.path.exists('mercurial/__version__.py'):
-    data = open('mercurial/__version__.py').read()
+    f = open('mercurial/__version__.py')
+    data = f.read()
+    f.close()
     version = re.search('version = b"(.*)"', data).group(1)
 
 if version: