Sort out the accepted types.
Handle Python 3's stricter separation between bytes and unicode.
Reviewed-By: David Kupka <dkupka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Jan Cholasta <jcholast@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Martin Basti <mbasti@redhat.com>
The six way of doing this is to replace all occurences of "unicode"
with "six.text_type". However, "unicode" is non-ambiguous and
(arguably) easier to read. Also, using it makes the patches smaller,
which should help with backporting.
Reviewed-By: Petr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com>