Use unicode literals throughout project

Remove workaround for handling unicode with older Pythons.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/redis/exceptions.py b/redis/exceptions.py
index a8518c7..44ab6f7 100644
--- a/redis/exceptions.py
+++ b/redis/exceptions.py
@@ -1,21 +1,10 @@
 "Core exceptions raised by the Redis client"
-from redis._compat import unicode
 
 
 class RedisError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-# python 2.5 doesn't implement Exception.__unicode__. Add it here to all
-# our exception types
-if not hasattr(RedisError, '__unicode__'):
-    def __unicode__(self):
-        if isinstance(self.args[0], unicode):
-            return self.args[0]
-        return unicode(self.args[0])
-    RedisError.__unicode__ = __unicode__
-
-
 class AuthenticationError(RedisError):
     pass