Python 3 renamed the unicode
type to str
, the old str
type has been replaced by bytes
.
if isinstance(unicode_or_str, str):
text = unicode_or_str
decoded = False
else:
text = unicode_or_str.decode(encoding)
decoded = True
You may want to read the Python 3 porting HOWTO for more such details. There is also Lennart Regebro’s Porting to Python 3: An in-depth guide, free online.
Last but not least, you could just try to use the 2to3
tool to see how that translates the code for you.