Rip out all the u"..." literals and calls to unicode().
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minicompat.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minicompat.py
index d491fb6..e2a2bca 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minicompat.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minicompat.py
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@
 import xml.dom
 
 try:
-    unicode
+    str
 except NameError:
     StringTypes = type(''),
 else:
-    StringTypes = type(''), type(unicode(''))
+    StringTypes = type(''), type(str(''))
 
 
 class NodeList(list):