Removed polyglots unicode_type usage

ebook_converter/ebooks/lrf/pylrs/elements.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
 elements.py -- replacements and helpers for ElementTree
 """
-from ebook_converter.polyglot.builtins import unicode_type, string_or_bytes
+from ebook_converter.polyglot.builtins import string_or_bytes
 
 
 class ElementWriter(object):
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ class ElementWriter(object):
         return text
 
     def _writeAttribute(self, f, name, value):
-        f.write(' %s="' % unicode_type(name))
+        f.write(' %s="' % str(name))
         if not isinstance(value, string_or_bytes):
-            value = unicode_type(value)
+            value = str(value)
         value = self._encodeCdata(value)
         value = value.replace('"', '"')
         f.write(value)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class ElementWriter(object):
         f.write(text)
 
     def _write(self, f, e):
-        f.write('<' + unicode_type(e.tag))
+        f.write('<' + str(e.tag))
 
         attributes = e.items()
         attributes.sort()