diff -r c2e284cee333 -r eef9a2d67051 mercurial/pycompat.py
--- a/mercurial/pycompat.py	Sun Oct 06 13:17:19 2019 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/pycompat.py	Sun Oct 06 13:28:56 2019 -0400
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@
     sysstr = identity
     strurl = identity
     bytesurl = identity
+    open = open
 
     # this can't be parsed on Python 3
     exec(b'def raisewithtb(exc, tb):\n' b'    raise exc, None, tb\n')