diff --git a/tests/end2end/features/test_history_bdd.py b/tests/end2end/features/test_history_bdd.py
index f5639f5f3..319e36aee 100644
--- a/tests/end2end/features/test_history_bdd.py
+++ b/tests/end2end/features/test_history_bdd.py
@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ def check_history(quteproc, httpbin, tmpdir, expected):
     quteproc.wait_for(category='message', loglevel=logging.INFO,
                       message='Dumped history to {}'.format(path))
 
-    with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    with path.open('r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         # ignore access times, they will differ in each run
-        actual = '\n'.join(re.sub('^\\d+-?', '', line).strip()
-                           for line in f.read().splitlines())
+        actual = '\n'.join(re.sub('^\\d+-?', '', line).strip() for line in f)
 
     expected = expected.replace('(port)', str(httpbin.port))
     assert actual == expected