code: def read_long_description(readme_file):
      
      try:
          import pypandoc
      except (ImportError, OSError) as e:
          print('No pypandoc or pandoc: %s' % (e,))
          if is_py3:
              fh = open(readme_file, encoding='utf-8')
          else:
              fh = open(readme_file)
          long_description = fh.read()
          fh.close()
          return long_description
      else:
          return pypandoc.convert(readme_file, 'rst')
docs: Read package long description from README file