Update make_curve.py for python3

In python2, we require unicode.  In python3, "unicode" as a type doesn't
exist. So we do a feature-check-kludge to set unicode to str if it
doesn't exist.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/Specific/Framework/make_curve.py b/src/Specific/Framework/make_curve.py
index b652090b8..71f6d6ad7 100755
--- a/src/Specific/Framework/make_curve.py
+++ b/src/Specific/Framework/make_curve.py
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import json, sys, os, math, re, shutil, io
 from fractions import Fraction
 
+### Python 2/3 compatibility hacks
+# unicode doesn't exist in python3 (str is unicode by default), so we
+# set unicode to str there (but we need proper unicode in python2)
+try:
+    unicode
+except NameError:
+    unicode = str
+
 DEFAULT_A24_FOR_BENCH = 121665
 def compute_bitwidth(base):
     return 2**int(math.ceil(math.log(base, 2)))