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  r72491 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-08 19:33:27 -0500 (Fri, 08 May 2009) | 7 lines

  make 2to3 use unicode internally on 2.x

  This started out as a fix for #2660, but became this large refactoring
  when I realized the dire state this was in. 2to3 now uses
  tokenize.detect_encoding to decode the files correctly into unicode.
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  r72492 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-08 19:35:38 -0500 (Fri, 08 May 2009) | 1 line

  remove compat code
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  r72493 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-08 19:54:15 -0500 (Fri, 08 May 2009) | 1 line

  add a test for \r\n newlines
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diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/patcomp.py b/Lib/lib2to3/patcomp.py
index ab525f2..5177d27 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/patcomp.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/patcomp.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
         assert len(nodes) >= 1
         node = nodes[0]
         if node.type == token.STRING:
-            value = literals.evalString(node.value)
+            value = unicode(literals.evalString(node.value))
             return pytree.LeafPattern(content=value)
         elif node.type == token.NAME:
             value = node.value