Rip out all the u"..." literals and calls to unicode().
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
index 5a97acf..99ed02b 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/dbapi.py
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
     def CheckScriptStringUnicode(self):
         con = sqlite.connect(":memory:")
         cur = con.cursor()
-        cur.executescript(u"""
+        cur.executescript("""
             create table a(i);
             insert into a(i) values (5);
             select i from a;
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/factory.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/factory.py
index 8a77d5d..61edc6c 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/factory.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/factory.py
@@ -139,31 +139,31 @@
         self.con = sqlite.connect(":memory:")
 
     def CheckUnicode(self):
-        austria = unicode("Österreich", "latin1")
+        austria = str("Österreich", "latin1")
         row = self.con.execute("select ?", (austria,)).fetchone()
-        self.failUnless(type(row[0]) == unicode, "type of row[0] must be unicode")
+        self.failUnless(type(row[0]) == str, "type of row[0] must be unicode")
 
     def CheckString(self):
         self.con.text_factory = str
-        austria = unicode("Österreich", "latin1")
+        austria = str("Österreich", "latin1")
         row = self.con.execute("select ?", (austria,)).fetchone()
         self.failUnless(type(row[0]) == str, "type of row[0] must be str")
         self.failUnless(row[0] == austria.encode("utf-8"), "column must equal original data in UTF-8")
 
     def CheckCustom(self):
-        self.con.text_factory = lambda x: unicode(x, "utf-8", "ignore")
-        austria = unicode("Österreich", "latin1")
+        self.con.text_factory = lambda x: str(x, "utf-8", "ignore")
+        austria = str("Österreich", "latin1")
         row = self.con.execute("select ?", (austria.encode("latin1"),)).fetchone()
-        self.failUnless(type(row[0]) == unicode, "type of row[0] must be unicode")
-        self.failUnless(row[0].endswith(u"reich"), "column must contain original data")
+        self.failUnless(type(row[0]) == str, "type of row[0] must be unicode")
+        self.failUnless(row[0].endswith("reich"), "column must contain original data")
 
     def CheckOptimizedUnicode(self):
         self.con.text_factory = sqlite.OptimizedUnicode
-        austria = unicode("Österreich", "latin1")
-        germany = unicode("Deutchland")
+        austria = str("Österreich", "latin1")
+        germany = str("Deutchland")
         a_row = self.con.execute("select ?", (austria,)).fetchone()
         d_row = self.con.execute("select ?", (germany,)).fetchone()
-        self.failUnless(type(a_row[0]) == unicode, "type of non-ASCII row must be unicode")
+        self.failUnless(type(a_row[0]) == str, "type of non-ASCII row must be unicode")
         self.failUnless(type(d_row[0]) == str, "type of ASCII-only row must be str")
 
     def tearDown(self):
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
index a357b2e..232a32c 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
         self.con.close()
 
     def CheckString(self):
-        self.cur.execute("insert into test(s) values (?)", (u"Österreich",))
+        self.cur.execute("insert into test(s) values (?)", ("Österreich",))
         self.cur.execute("select s from test")
         row = self.cur.fetchone()
-        self.failUnlessEqual(row[0], u"Österreich")
+        self.failUnlessEqual(row[0], "Österreich")
 
     def CheckSmallInt(self):
         self.cur.execute("insert into test(i) values (?)", (42,))
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
         self.failUnlessEqual(row[0], val)
 
     def CheckUnicodeExecute(self):
-        self.cur.execute(u"select 'Österreich'")
+        self.cur.execute("select 'Österreich'")
         row = self.cur.fetchone()
-        self.failUnlessEqual(row[0], u"Österreich")
+        self.failUnlessEqual(row[0], "Österreich")
 
 class DeclTypesTests(unittest.TestCase):
     class Foo:
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
 
     def CheckUnicode(self):
         # default
-        val = u"\xd6sterreich"
+        val = "\xd6sterreich"
         self.cur.execute("insert into test(u) values (?)", (val,))
         self.cur.execute("select u from test")
         row = self.cur.fetchone()
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/userfunctions.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/userfunctions.py
index a7cdcae..a2f2574 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/userfunctions.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/userfunctions.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 def func_returntext():
     return "foo"
 def func_returnunicode():
-    return u"bar"
+    return "bar"
 def func_returnint():
     return 42
 def func_returnfloat():
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     5/0
 
 def func_isstring(v):
-    return type(v) is unicode
+    return type(v) is str
 def func_isint(v):
     return type(v) is int
 def func_isfloat(v):
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
         self.val = None
 
     def step(self, whichType, val):
-        theType = {"str": unicode, "int": int, "float": float, "None": type(None), "blob": buffer}
+        theType = {"str": str, "int": int, "float": float, "None": type(None), "blob": buffer}
         self.val = int(theType[whichType] is type(val))
 
     def finalize(self):
@@ -160,15 +160,15 @@
         cur = self.con.cursor()
         cur.execute("select returntext()")
         val = cur.fetchone()[0]
-        self.failUnlessEqual(type(val), unicode)
+        self.failUnlessEqual(type(val), str)
         self.failUnlessEqual(val, "foo")
 
     def CheckFuncReturnUnicode(self):
         cur = self.con.cursor()
         cur.execute("select returnunicode()")
         val = cur.fetchone()[0]
-        self.failUnlessEqual(type(val), unicode)
-        self.failUnlessEqual(val, u"bar")
+        self.failUnlessEqual(type(val), str)
+        self.failUnlessEqual(val, "bar")
 
     def CheckFuncReturnInt(self):
         cur = self.con.cursor()