Remove obsolete and broken unicode compatibility in pywintypes
#2200
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Follow-up to #2085 but on side of the exposed C API
UnicodeType
is just an alias tostr
Closes #697 and closes #756 by simply removing the broken method
Unicode
.I couldn't find an immediate pure-python equivalent of
UnicodeFromRaw
, and the demoE:\Users\Avasam\Documents\Git\pywin32\win32\Demos\BackupSeek_streamheaders.py
looks like it still works fine. SO I left that one alone.Not sure about
IsTextUnicode
.I also had to fix the Excel test to work with versions greater than 9, so I could test it myself.