[issue8767] Configure: Cannot disable unicode

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

I find the injection of a fake unicode class too hacky. Instead, I suggest that each module does

try:
    _unicode = unicode
except NameError:
    # no unicode support in this build
    class _unicode:
        pass

and then have the isinstance checks look for _unicode

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