diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h b/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
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+/* this is sort of a hack.  there's at least one place (formatting
+   floats) where some stringlib code takes a different path if it's
+   compiled as unicode. */
+#define STRINGLIB_IS_UNICODE     1
+
+#define FASTSEARCH               asciilib_fastsearch
+#define STRINGLIB(F)             asciilib_##F
+#define STRINGLIB_OBJECT         PyUnicodeObject
+#define STRINGLIB_CHAR           Py_UCS1
+#define STRINGLIB_TYPE_NAME      "unicode"
+#define STRINGLIB_PARSE_CODE     "U"
+#define STRINGLIB_EMPTY          unicode_empty
+#define STRINGLIB_ISSPACE        Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE
+#define STRINGLIB_ISLINEBREAK    BLOOM_LINEBREAK
+#define STRINGLIB_ISDECIMAL      Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL
+#define STRINGLIB_TODECIMAL      Py_UNICODE_TODECIMAL
+#define STRINGLIB_TOUPPER        Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER
+#define STRINGLIB_TOLOWER        Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER
+#define STRINGLIB_FILL           Py_UNICODE_FILL
+#define STRINGLIB_STR            PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA
+#define STRINGLIB_LEN            PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH
+#define STRINGLIB_NEW            unicode_fromascii
+#define STRINGLIB_RESIZE         not_supported
+#define STRINGLIB_CHECK          PyUnicode_Check
+#define STRINGLIB_CHECK_EXACT    PyUnicode_CheckExact
+#define STRINGLIB_GROUPING       _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping
+#define STRINGLIB_GROUPING_LOCALE _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale
+
+#define STRINGLIB_TOSTR          PyObject_Str
+#define STRINGLIB_TOASCII        PyObject_ASCII
+
+#define _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping _PyUnicode_ascii_InsertThousandsGrouping
+#define _Py_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale _PyUnicode_ascii_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale
+