Rip out all the u"..." literals and calls to unicode().
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
index c4d12d7..8d80e7a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs")
 
     def test_nonexisting_u(self):
-        self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, u"nonexisting.vbs")
+        self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs")
 
     def test_empty(self):
         empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs")
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 
     def test_empty_u(self):
         empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs")
-        startfile(unicode(empty, "mbcs"))
-        startfile(unicode(empty, "mbcs"), "open")
+        startfile(str(empty, "mbcs"))
+        startfile(str(empty, "mbcs"), "open")
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(TestCase)