Remove needless unicode escapes

Author: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

README.rst

@@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ Interactive::
 
     >>> import barcode
     >>> barcode.PROVIDED_BARCODES
-    [u'code39', u'code128', u'ean', u'ean13', u'ean8', u'gs1', u'gtin',
-     u'isbn', u'isbn10', u'isbn13', u'issn', u'jan', u'pzn', u'upc', u'upca']
+    ['code39', 'code128', 'ean', 'ean13', 'ean8', 'gs1', 'gtin',
+     'isbn', 'isbn10', 'isbn13', 'issn', 'jan', 'pzn', 'upc', 'upca']
     >>> EAN = barcode.get_barcode_class('ean13')
     >>> EAN
     <class 'barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13'>
-    >>> ean = EAN(u'5901234123457')
+    >>> ean = EAN('5901234123457')
     >>> ean
     <barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13 object at 0x00BE98F0>
     >>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
     >>> fullname
-    u'ean13_barcode.svg'
+    'ean13_barcode.svg'
     # Example with PNG
     >>> from barcode.writer import ImageWriter
-    >>> ean = EAN(u'5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter())
+    >>> ean = EAN('5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter())
     >>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
-    u'ean13_barcode.png'
+    'ean13_barcode.png'
     # New in v0.4.2
     >>> from StringIO import StringIO
     >>> fp = StringIO()
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@ Interactive::
     >>> ean.write(f) # PIL (ImageWriter) produces RAW format here
     # New in v0.5.0
     >>> from barcode import generate
-    >>> name = generate('EAN13', u'5901234123457', output='barcode_svg')
+    >>> name = generate('EAN13', '5901234123457', output='barcode_svg')
     >>> name
-    u'barcode_svg.svg'
+    'barcode_svg.svg'
     # with file like object
     >>> fp = StringIO()
-    >>> generate('EAN13', u'5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter(), output=fp)
+    >>> generate('EAN13', '5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter(), output=fp)
     >>>
 
 Now open ean13_barcode.[svg|png] in a graphic app or simply in your browser

barcode/isxn.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
     >>> ISBN = get_barcode('isbn10')
     >>> isbn = ISBN('0132354187')
     >>> unicode(isbn)
-    u'0132354187'
+    '0132354187'
     >>> isbn.get_fullcode()
-    u'9780132354189'
+    '9780132354189'
     >>> # Test with wrong checksum
     >>> isbn = ISBN('0132354180')
     >>> unicode(isbn)
-    u'0132354187'
+    '0132354187'
 
 """
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'

docs/barcode.rst

@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ Quick example::
     >>> ean = barcode.get('ean13', '123456789102')
     # Now we look if the checksum was added
     >>> ean.get_fullcode()
-    u'1234567891026'
+    '1234567891026'
     >>> filename = ean.save('ean13')
     >>> filename
-    u'ean13.svg'
+    'ean13.svg'
     >>> options = dict(compress=True)
     >>> filename = ean.save('ean13', options)
     >>> filename
-    u'ean13.svgz'
+    'ean13.svgz'
 
 Now you have ean13.svg and the compressed ean13.svgz in your current
 working directory. Open it and see the result.
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ Quick example::
     >>> ean = barcode.get('ean13', '123456789102', writer=ImageWriter())
     >>> filename = ean.save('ean13')
     >>> filename
-    u'ean13.png'
+    'ean13.png'

docs/conf.py

@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
 latex_documents = [
-  ('index', 'pyBarcode.tex', u'pyBarcode Documentation',
-   u'Thorsten Weimann', 'manual'),
+  ('index', 'pyBarcode.tex', 'pyBarcode Documentation',
+   'Thorsten Weimann', 'manual'),
 ]
 
 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of