--- a/contrib/testparseutil.py	Sun Oct 06 16:58:55 2019 -0400
+++ b/contrib/testparseutil.py	Sun Oct 06 17:27:51 2019 -0400
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     def sysstr(s):
         if isinstance(s, builtins.str):
             return s
-        return s.decode(u'latin-1')
+        return s.decode('latin-1')
 
     def opentext(f):
         return open(f, 'r')