Use unicode literals instead of Python version switching

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mammoth/html_generation.py b/mammoth/html_generation.py
index 32a0d62..f31b2d3 100644
--- a/mammoth/html_generation.py
+++ b/mammoth/html_generation.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import cgi
 import sys
 
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ class HtmlGenerator(object):
                 self._fragments.append(fragment)
     
     def html_string(self):
-        return u("").join(self._fragments)
+        return "".join(self._fragments)
 
 
 class _Element(object):
@@ -109,9 +111,7 @@ def _generate_class_attribute(path_element):
 
 if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
     _iteritems = lambda x: x.iteritems()
-    u = lambda value: unicode(value, "unicode_escape")
     
 else:
     _iteritems = lambda x: x.items()
-    u = lambda value: value