From 94040dfbd3e7cd42176180a04a32312aa5f19dde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@sunlightfoundation.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:01:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] python3ing the code

---
 hy/lang/string.py | 9 ++++++++-
 hy/lang/symbol.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hy/lang/string.py b/hy/lang/string.py
index 44a9144..6648c52 100644
--- a/hy/lang/string.py
+++ b/hy/lang/string.py
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 from hy.lang.hyobj import HYObject
+import sys
 
 
-class HYString(unicode, HYObject):
+if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+    _str_type = str
+else:
+    _str_type = unicode
+
+
+class HYString(_str_type, HYObject):
     def __init__(self, string):
         self += string
diff --git a/hy/lang/symbol.py b/hy/lang/symbol.py
index 14f3b03..0add991 100644
--- a/hy/lang/symbol.py
+++ b/hy/lang/symbol.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from hy.lang.hyobj import HYObject
+from hy.lang.string import HYString
 
 
-class HYSymbol(unicode, HYObject):
+class HYSymbol(HYString):
     def __init__(self, string):
         self += string