Use a 2/3 name for unicode

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/phystokens.py b/coverage/phystokens.py
index 9a697b60..a2b23cfc 100644
--- a/coverage/phystokens.py
+++ b/coverage/phystokens.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import token
 import tokenize
 
 from coverage import env
-from coverage.backward import iternext
+from coverage.backward import iternext, unicode_class
 from coverage.misc import contract
 
 
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ def compile_unicode(source, filename, mode):
 
     """
     source = neuter_encoding_declaration(source)
-    if env.PY2 and isinstance(filename, unicode):
+    if env.PY2 and isinstance(filename, unicode_class):
         filename = filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), "replace")
     code = compile(source, filename, mode)
     return code
diff --git a/tests/helpers.py b/tests/helpers.py
index f4bff2b0..ebc15cd1 100644
--- a/tests/helpers.py
+++ b/tests/helpers.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 
 from coverage import env
+from coverage.backward import unicode_class
 from coverage.misc import output_encoding
 
 
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ def run_command(cmd):
     Returns the exit status code and the combined stdout and stderr.
 
     """
-    if env.PY2 and isinstance(cmd, unicode):
+    if env.PY2 and isinstance(cmd, unicode_class):
         cmd = cmd.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
 
     # In some strange cases (PyPy3 in a virtualenv!?) the stdout encoding of