[compat] Do not use unicode

If the code ever runs on 3.x, it would fail. Even if it never does, the unicode name confuses Python 3 code analysis tools.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index e32bef279..1ff42d94b 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ except ImportError:
     import BaseHTTPServer as compat_http_server
 
 try:
+    compat_str = unicode  # Python 2
+except NameError:
+    compat_str = str
+
+try:
     from urllib.parse import unquote_to_bytes as compat_urllib_parse_unquote_to_bytes
     from urllib.parse import unquote as compat_urllib_parse_unquote
     from urllib.parse import unquote_plus as compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus
@@ -100,7 +105,7 @@ except ImportError:  # Python 2
             # Is it a string-like object?
             string.split
             return b''
-        if isinstance(string, unicode):
+        if isinstance(string, compat_str):
             string = string.encode('utf-8')
         bits = string.split(b'%')
         if len(bits) == 1:
@@ -151,11 +156,6 @@ except ImportError:  # Python 2
         return compat_urllib_parse_unquote(string, encoding, errors)
 
 try:
-    compat_str = unicode  # Python 2
-except NameError:
-    compat_str = str
-
-try:
     compat_basestring = basestring  # Python 2
 except NameError:
     compat_basestring = str
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ else:
     # Working around shlex issue with unicode strings on some python 2
     # versions (see http://bugs.python.org/issue1548891)
     def compat_shlex_split(s, comments=False, posix=True):
-        if isinstance(s, unicode):
+        if isinstance(s, compat_str):
             s = s.encode('utf-8')
         return shlex.split(s, comments, posix)