patman: Drop unicode helper functions

We don't need these now that everything uses Python 3. Remove them and
the extra code in GetBytes() and ToBytes() too.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/patman/func_test.py b/tools/patman/func_test.py
index 74a144d..e7db36a 100644
--- a/tools/patman/func_test.py
+++ b/tools/patman/func_test.py
@@ -237,27 +237,26 @@
                 if 'Cc:' not in prev:
                     break
         self.assertEqual('To:	  u-boot@lists.denx.de', prev)
-        self.assertEqual('Cc:	  %s' % tools.FromUnicode(stefan), next(lines))
+        self.assertEqual('Cc:	  %s' % stefan, next(lines))
         self.assertEqual('Version:  3', next(lines))
         self.assertEqual('Prefix:\t  RFC', next(lines))
         self.assertEqual('Cover: 4 lines', next(lines))
         self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % self.fred, next(lines))
-        self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % tools.FromUnicode(self.leb),
+        self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % self.leb,
                          next(lines))
-        self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % tools.FromUnicode(mel), next(lines))
+        self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % mel, next(lines))
         self.assertEqual('      Cc:  %s' % rick, next(lines))
         expected = ('Git command: git send-email --annotate '
                     '--in-reply-to="%s" --to "u-boot@lists.denx.de" '
                     '--cc "%s" --cc-cmd "%s send --cc-cmd %s" %s %s'
                     % (in_reply_to, stefan, sys.argv[0], cc_file, cover_fname,
                        ' '.join(args)))
-        self.assertEqual(expected, tools.ToUnicode(next(lines)))
+        self.assertEqual(expected, next(lines))
 
-        self.assertEqual(('%s %s\0%s' % (args[0], rick, stefan)),
-                         tools.ToUnicode(cc_lines[0]))
+        self.assertEqual(('%s %s\0%s' % (args[0], rick, stefan)), cc_lines[0])
         self.assertEqual(
             '%s %s\0%s\0%s\0%s' % (args[1], self.fred, self.leb, rick, stefan),
-            tools.ToUnicode(cc_lines[1]))
+            cc_lines[1])
 
         expected = '''
 This is a test of how the cover
diff --git a/tools/patman/gitutil.py b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
index 31fb3b2..6c4d241 100644
--- a/tools/patman/gitutil.py
+++ b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
@@ -383,7 +383,6 @@
         raw += LookupEmail(item, alias, raise_on_error=raise_on_error)
     result = []
     for item in raw:
-        item = tools.FromUnicode(item)
         if not item in result:
             result.append(item)
     if tag:
@@ -494,7 +493,7 @@
     if smtp_server:
         cmd.append('--smtp-server=%s' % smtp_server)
     if in_reply_to:
-        cmd.append('--in-reply-to="%s"' % tools.FromUnicode(in_reply_to))
+        cmd.append('--in-reply-to="%s"' % in_reply_to)
     if thread:
         cmd.append('--thread')
 
diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py
index 1d92bdb..a6746e8 100644
--- a/tools/patman/series.py
+++ b/tools/patman/series.py
@@ -272,7 +272,6 @@
             for x in set(cc) & set(settings.bounces):
                 print(col.Color(col.YELLOW, 'Skipping "%s"' % x))
             cc = set(cc) - set(settings.bounces)
-            cc = [tools.FromUnicode(m) for m in cc]
             if limit is not None:
                 cc = cc[:limit]
             all_ccs += cc
@@ -281,11 +280,10 @@
 
         if cover_fname:
             cover_cc = gitutil.BuildEmailList(self.get('cover_cc', ''))
-            cover_cc = [tools.FromUnicode(m) for m in cover_cc]
             cover_cc = list(set(cover_cc + all_ccs))
             if limit is not None:
                 cover_cc = cover_cc[:limit]
-            cc_list = '\0'.join([tools.ToUnicode(x) for x in sorted(cover_cc)])
+            cc_list = '\0'.join([x for x in sorted(cover_cc)])
             print(cover_fname, cc_list, file=fd)
 
         fd.close()
diff --git a/tools/patman/settings.py b/tools/patman/settings.py
index 8c10eab..60cdc1c 100644
--- a/tools/patman/settings.py
+++ b/tools/patman/settings.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
             val = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser.get(
                 self, section, option, *args, **kwargs
             )
-        return tools.ToUnicode(val)
+        return val
 
     def items(self, section, *args, **kwargs):
         """Extend SafeConfigParser to add project_section to section.
@@ -147,8 +147,7 @@
 
         item_dict = dict(top_items)
         item_dict.update(project_items)
-        return {(tools.ToUnicode(item), tools.ToUnicode(val))
-                for item, val in item_dict.items()}
+        return {(item, val) for item, val in item_dict.items()}
 
 def ReadGitAliases(fname):
     """Read a git alias file. This is in the form used by git:
diff --git a/tools/patman/tools.py b/tools/patman/tools.py
index bbb157d..55ba1e9 100644
--- a/tools/patman/tools.py
+++ b/tools/patman/tools.py
@@ -414,8 +414,6 @@
 def GetBytes(byte, size):
     """Get a string of bytes of a given size
 
-    This handles the unfortunate different between Python 2 and Python 2.
-
     Args:
         byte: Numeric byte value to use
         size: Size of bytes/string to return
@@ -423,43 +421,7 @@
     Returns:
         A bytes type with 'byte' repeated 'size' times
     """
-    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-        data = bytes([byte]) * size
-    else:
-        data = chr(byte) * size
-    return data
-
-def ToUnicode(val):
-    """Make sure a value is a unicode string
-
-    This allows some amount of compatibility between Python 2 and Python3. For
-    the former, it returns a unicode object.
-
-    Args:
-        val: string or unicode object
-
-    Returns:
-        unicode version of val
-    """
-    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-        return val
-    return val if isinstance(val, unicode) else val.decode('utf-8')
-
-def FromUnicode(val):
-    """Make sure a value is a non-unicode string
-
-    This allows some amount of compatibility between Python 2 and Python3. For
-    the former, it converts a unicode object to a string.
-
-    Args:
-        val: string or unicode object
-
-    Returns:
-        non-unicode version of val
-    """
-    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-        return val
-    return val if isinstance(val, str) else val.encode('utf-8')
+    return bytes([byte]) * size
 
 def ToByte(ch):
     """Convert a character to an ASCII value
@@ -506,12 +468,9 @@
         string: string to convert
 
     Returns:
-        Python 3: A bytes type
-        Python 2: A string type
+        A bytes type
     """
-    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-        return string.encode('utf-8')
-    return string
+    return string.encode('utf-8')
 
 def ToString(bval):
     """Convert a bytes type into a str type