From dab5555503b07fe3e1f730a2bdebd97f4b535c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: linkmauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:51:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update colout.py
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Python 2 will retire in thirteen days (see https://pythonclock.org/), there is no reason to keep obsolete checks in the code any longer.
---
 colout/colout.py | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/colout/colout.py b/colout/colout.py
index 29ca071..b346d0e 100755
--- a/colout/colout.py
+++ b/colout/colout.py
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ signal.signal( signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL )
 # Global variable(s)
 ###############################################################################
 
-PY2 = sys.version_info.major == 2
-
 context = {}
 debug = False
 
@@ -757,9 +755,6 @@ def write(colored, stream = sys.stdout):
     """
     Write "colored" on sys.stdout, then flush.
     """
-    if PY2: # If Python 2.x: force unicode
-        if isinstance(colored, unicode):
-            colored = colored.encode('utf-8')
     try:
         stream.write(colored)
         stream.flush()