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diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
index 108eb7086..b7ad2230e 100644
--- a/numpy/core/defchararray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ __all__ = ['chararray',
'array', 'asarray']
_globalvar = 0
-_unicode = unicode
+if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+ _unicode = str
+else:
+ _unicode = unicode
_len = len
def _use_unicode(*args):