Rip out all the u"..." literals and calls to unicode().
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_compile.py b/Lib/test/test_compile.py
index ae55485..5cfe27c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_compile.py
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
         self.assertNotEqual(id(f1.__code__), id(f2.__code__))
 
     def test_unicode_encoding(self):
-        code = u"# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\npass\n"
+        code = "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\npass\n"
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, compile, code, "tmp", "exec")
 
     def test_subscripts(self):