diff -r cf70f030a744 Lib/cookielib.py
--- a/Lib/cookielib.py	Wed Jun 18 23:07:46 2014 -0400
+++ b/Lib/cookielib.py	Mon Jun 23 21:49:11 2014 +0300
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@
 import httplib  # only for the default HTTP port
 from calendar import timegm
 
+try:
+    _unicode = unicode
+except NameError:
+    # If Python is built without Unicode support, the unicode type
+    # will not exist. Fake one.
+    class _unicode(object):
+        pass
+
 debug = False   # set to True to enable debugging via the logging module
 logger = None
 
@@ -646,7 +654,7 @@
     # And here, kind of: draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-03
     # (And in draft IRI specification: draft-duerst-iri-05)
     # (And here, for new URI schemes: RFC 2718)
-    if isinstance(path, unicode):
+    if isinstance(path, _unicode):
         path = path.encode("utf-8")
     path = urllib.quote(path, HTTP_PATH_SAFE)
     path = ESCAPED_CHAR_RE.sub(uppercase_escaped_char, path)
diff -r cf70f030a744 Lib/test/test_cookielib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py	Wed Jun 18 23:07:46 2014 -0400
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py	Mon Jun 23 21:49:11 2014 +0300
@@ -594,9 +594,11 @@
             # unquoted unsafe
             ("/foo\031/bar", "/foo%19/bar"),
             ("/\175foo/bar", "/%7Dfoo/bar"),
+            ]
+        if test_support.have_unicode:
             # unicode
-            (u"/foo/bar\uabcd", "/foo/bar%EA%AF%8D"),  # UTF-8 encoded
-            ]
+            cases.append((test_support.u(r"/foo/bar\uabcd"),
+                          "/foo/bar%EA%AF%8D"))  # UTF-8 encoded
         for arg, result in cases:
             self.assertEqual(escape_path(arg), result)