1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
index 7c63efd2..e84e65e3 100644
--- a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
+++ b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 import unicodedata
 import sys
 
-from setuptools.extern import six
-
 
 # HFS Plus uses decomposed UTF-8
 def decompose(path):
-    if isinstance(path, six.text_type):
+    if isinstance(path, str):
         return unicodedata.normalize('NFD', path)
     try:
         path = path.decode('utf-8')
@@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ def filesys_decode(path):
     NONE when no expected encoding works
     """
 
-    if isinstance(path, six.text_type):
+    if isinstance(path, str):
         return path
 
     fs_enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf-8'