diff --git a/fake_filesystem_test.py b/fake_filesystem_test.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/fake_filesystem_test.py
+++ b/fake_filesystem_test.py
@@ -3293,11 +3293,7 @@ class DiskSpaceTest(TestCase):
     self.assertEqual((100, 5, 95), self.filesystem.GetDiskUsage())
 
   def testFileSystemSizeAfterAsciiStringFileCreation(self):
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
-      contents = u'complicated'
-    else:
-      contents = 'complicated'
-    self.filesystem.CreateFile('/foo/bar', contents=contents)
+    self.filesystem.CreateFile('/foo/bar', contents='complicated')
     self.assertEqual((100, 11, 89), self.filesystem.GetDiskUsage())
 
   def testFileSystemSizeAfter2ByteUnicodeStringFileCreation(self):
Second go to fix the test

- do not use unicode in Python 2