diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 01fdbe6..82c60e3 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 History
 =======
 
+0.2.1 (2010-09-01)
+------------------
+* StringIO support for Files
+* Added Install Requirements for Pip
+
+
 0.2.0 (2010-08-28)
 ------------------
 * Support for Add, Rename, Modify, and Delete of Files!
diff --git a/gistapi/__init__.py b/gistapi/__init__.py
index abadf85..f2edaf0 100644
--- a/gistapi/__init__.py
+++ b/gistapi/__init__.py
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ from core import *
 
 
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
-__version__ = '0.2.0'
-__build__ = 0x000200
+__version__ = '0.2.1'
+__build__ = 0x000201
 __license__ = 'MIT'
diff --git a/gistapi/core.py b/gistapi/core.py
index ae3165f..8225ecd 100644
--- a/gistapi/core.py
+++ b/gistapi/core.py
@@ -24,15 +24,13 @@ False
 >>> Gist('d4507e882a07ac6f9f92').filenames
 ['exampleEmptyFile', 'exampleFile']
 
->>> Gist('d4507e882a07ac6f9f92').files
-{'exampleFile': u'Example file content.', 'exampleEmptyFile': u''}
-
 >>> Gists.fetch_by_user('kennethreitz')[-1].description
 u'My .bashrc configuration'
 """
 
+import cStringIO
 import os.path
-import urllib
+
 import urllib2
 from dateutil.parser import parse as dtime
 
@@ -191,7 +189,9 @@ class Gist(object):
         for fn in self._meta['files']:
             # Grab file contents
             _file_url = GIST_BASE % 'raw/%s/%s' % (self.id, fn)
-            _files[fn] = unicode(urllib2.urlopen(_file_url).read())
+#            _files[fn] = unicode(urllib2.urlopen(_file_url).read())
+            _files[fn] = cStringIO.StringIO()
+            _files[fn].write(urllib2.urlopen(_file_url).read())
 
         return _files
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 56732b0..dde264c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from distutils.core import setup
 
 
 def publish():
+
     """Publish to PyPi"""
     os.system("python setup.py sdist upload")
 
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ setup(name='gistapi',
       author_email='me@kennethreitz.com',
       url='http://github.com/kennethreitz/gistapi.py',
       packages=['gistapi'],
+      install_requires=['python-dateutil', 'simplejson'],
       license='MIT',
       classifiers=(
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",