Merge pull request #1331 from jseabold/dataset-unicode-docstrings

ENH: Always use unicode.
statsmodels · Jan 26, 2014 · a0fc6d1 · a0fc6d1
2 parents 8d7df1a + f01fa2e
commit a0fc6d1
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diff --git a/statsmodels/datasets/utils.py b/statsmodels/datasets/utils.py
@@ -184,9 +184,7 @@ def _get_data(base_url, dataname, cache, extension="csv"):
         else:
             raise err
 
-    #Python 3, always decode as unicode
-    if sys.version[0] == '3':  # pragma: no cover
-        data = data.decode('utf-8', errors='strict')
+    data = data.decode('utf-8', errors='strict')
     return StringIO(data), from_cache