It's ok for __repr__ to return unicode.
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 81f5669..8597d88 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -361,15 +361,8 @@
res = (*v->ob_type->tp_repr)(v);
if (res == NULL)
return NULL;
- if (PyUnicode_Check(res)) {
- PyObject* str;
- str = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(res, NULL, NULL);
- Py_DECREF(res);
- if (str)
- res = str;
- else
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (PyUnicode_Check(res))
+ return res;
if (!PyString_Check(res)) {
PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
"__repr__ returned non-string (type %.200s)",