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-rw-r--r--Lib/encodings/__init__.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
index 7db44cb..aea7c5e 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
import codecs
from encodings import aliases
+import __builtin__
_cache = {}
_unknown = '--unknown--'
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ def normalize_encoding(encoding):
"""
# Make sure we have an 8-bit string, because .translate() works
# differently for Unicode strings.
- if isinstance(encoding, unicode):
+ if hasattr(__builtin__, "unicode") and isinstance(encoding, unicode):
# Note that .encode('latin-1') does *not* use the codec
# registry, so this call doesn't recurse. (See unicodeobject.c
# PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for details)