Removed another unicode/string nonsense

ebook_converter/ebooks/lrf/html/table.py

@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ from ebook_converter.ebooks.lrf.fonts import get_font
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.lrf.pylrs.pylrs import TextBlock, Text, CR, Span, \
                                              CharButton, Plot, Paragraph, \
                                              LrsTextTag
-from ebook_converter.polyglot.builtins import native_string_type
-
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 
 
 def ceil(num):
@@ -17,8 +12,8 @@ def ceil(num):
 
 def print_xml(elem):
     from ebook_converter.ebooks.lrf.pylrs.pylrs import ElementWriter
-    elem = elem.toElement(native_string_type('utf8'))
-    ew = ElementWriter(elem, sourceEncoding=native_string_type('utf8'))
+    elem = elem.toElement('utf8')
+    ew = ElementWriter(elem, sourceEncoding='utf8')
     ew.write(sys.stdout)
     print()
 

ebook_converter/ebooks/lrf/pylrs/pylrs.py

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ DEFAULT_GENREADING      = "fs"          # default is yes to both lrf and lrs
 
 from ebook_converter import __appname__, __version__
 from ebook_converter import entity_to_unicode
-from ebook_converter.polyglot.builtins import native_string_type
 
 
 class LrsError(Exception):
@@ -617,7 +616,7 @@ class Book(Delegator):
 
         _formatXml(root)
         tree = ElementTree(element=root)
-        tree.write(f, encoding=native_string_type(outputEncodingName), xml_declaration=True)
+        tree.write(f, encoding=outputEncodingName, xml_declaration=True)
 
 
 class BookInformation(Delegator):
@@ -669,7 +668,7 @@ class Info(Delegator):
         # NB: generates an encoding attribute, which lrs2lrf does not
         tree = ElementTree(element=info)
         f = io.BytesIO()
-        tree.write(f, encoding=native_string_type('utf-8'), xml_declaration=True)
+        tree.write(f, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)
         xmlInfo = f.getvalue().decode('utf-8')
         xmlInfo = re.sub(r"<CThumbnail.*?>\n", "", xmlInfo)
         xmlInfo = xmlInfo.replace("SumPage>", "Page>")