From 014730192c6a7325901da560d0228dfee28d9c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cclauss <cclauss@bluewin.ch>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:29:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] try: u = unicode

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html#use-feature-detection-instead-of-version-detection  This approach will work with Python 4 ;-)
---
 pyre/zhelper.py | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyre/zhelper.py b/pyre/zhelper.py
index f167763..9da6264 100644
--- a/pyre/zhelper.py
+++ b/pyre/zhelper.py
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-import random
-import zmq
-import threading
+
 import binascii
 import os
+import random
 import sys
+import threading
+import zmq
 from . import zsocket
 
-
-if sys.version.startswith('3'):
-    u = str
-else:
+try:
     u = unicode
+except NameError:
+    u = str
+
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Create a pipe, which consists of two PAIR sockets connected over inproc.