I forgot to start the unit test suite first.
diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index 38e93de..b3d84e7 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -5441,7 +5441,7 @@
format_dict['precision'] = 1
# record whether return type should be str or unicode
- format_dict['unicode'] = isinstance(format_spec, unicode)
+ format_dict['unicode'] = True
return format_dict
@@ -5486,10 +5486,6 @@
half = len(padding)//2
result = padding[:half] + sign + body + padding[half:]
- # make sure that result is unicode if necessary
- if spec_dict['unicode']:
- result = unicode(result)
-
return result
##### Useful Constants (internal use only) ################################