diff --git a/test/test_api/test_api.py b/test/test_api/test_api.py
index 5f862a60..9f54dbce 100644
--- a/test/test_api/test_api.py
+++ b/test/test_api/test_api.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import pytest
 from pytest import raises
 from parso import cache
 
-from jedi._compatibility import unicode
 from jedi import preload_module
 from jedi.inference.gradual import typeshed
 from test.helpers import test_dir, get_example_dir
@@ -326,7 +325,7 @@ def test_goto_follow_builtin_imports(Script):
 
 def test_docstrings_for_completions(Script):
     for c in Script('').complete():
-        assert isinstance(c.docstring(), (str, unicode))
+        assert isinstance(c.docstring(), str)
 
 
 def test_fuzzy_completion(Script):
diff --git a/test/test_api/test_keyword.py b/test/test_api/test_keyword.py
index dbf71b89..37e33a88 100644
--- a/test/test_api/test_keyword.py
+++ b/test/test_api/test_keyword.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ def test_goto_keyword(Script):
     """
     Bug: goto assignments on ``in`` used to raise AttributeError::
 
-      'unicode' object has no attribute 'generate_call_path'
+      'str' object has no attribute 'generate_call_path'
     """
     Script('in').goto()
 
diff --git a/test/test_api/test_unicode.py b/test/test_api/test_unicode.py
index 3ddb0c91..c1066acd 100644
--- a/test/test_api/test_unicode.py
+++ b/test/test_api/test_unicode.py
@@ -37,18 +37,14 @@ def test_unicode_attribute(Script):
 
 def test_multibyte_script(Script):
     """ `jedi.Script` must accept multi-byte string source. """
-    try:
-        code = u("import datetime; datetime.d")
-        comment = u("# multi-byte comment あいうえおä")
-        s = (u('%s\n%s') % (code, comment)).encode('utf-8')
-    except NameError:
-        pass  # python 3 has no unicode method
-    else:
-        assert len(Script(s).complete(1, len(code)))
+    code = u("import datetime; datetime.d")
+    comment = u("# multi-byte comment あいうえおä")
+    s = (u('%s\n%s') % (code, comment))
+    assert len(Script(s).complete(1, len(code)))
 
 
 def test_goto_definition_at_zero(Script):
-    """At zero usually sometimes raises unicode issues."""
+    """Infer at zero sometimes raises issues."""
     assert Script("a").infer(1, 1) == []
     s = Script("str").infer(1, 1)
     assert len(s) == 1
diff --git a/test/test_inference/test_namespace_package.py b/test/test_inference/test_namespace_package.py
index 8bde5770..69e91354 100644
--- a/test/test_inference/test_namespace_package.py
+++ b/test/test_inference/test_namespace_package.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def test_goto_assignment(Script, source, solution):
 def test_simple_completions(Script):
     # completion
     completions = script_with_path(Script, 'from pkg import ').complete()
-    names = [str(c.name) for c in completions]  # str because of unicode
+    names = [c.name for c in completions]
     compare = ['foo', 'ns1_file', 'ns1_folder', 'ns2_folder', 'ns2_file',
                'pkg_resources', 'pkgutil', '__name__', '__path__',
                '__package__', '__file__', '__doc__']