File python3-fixes-pr-6.patch of Package python-jsondate

From 80c3b355f2f4fe61b46f53d9078dd7ccac127b76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Norman <chris.norman2@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 20:46:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Removed the references to u'' and iteritems for
 dictionaries. Also began to update the tests.

---
 jsondate/__init__.py   | 9 +--------
 test-requirements.txt  | 4 ++++
 tests/test_jsondate.py | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test-requirements.txt

diff --git a/jsondate/__init__.py b/jsondate/__init__.py
index 4486574..4cc10f1 100644
--- a/jsondate/__init__.py
+++ b/jsondate/__init__.py
@@ -15,14 +15,7 @@ def _datetime_encoder(obj):
 
 
 def _datetime_decoder(dict_):
-    for key, value in dict_.iteritems():
-        # The built-in `json` library will `unicode` strings, except for empty
-        # strings which are of type `str`. `jsondate` patches this for
-        # consistency so that `unicode` is always returned.
-        if value == '':
-            dict_[key] = u''
-            continue
-
+    for key, value in dict_.items():
         try:
             datetime_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(value, ISO8601_FMT)
             dict_[key] = datetime_obj
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff3197f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Only needed for running the tests.
+
+pytest
+jsonschema
diff --git a/tests/test_jsondate.py b/tests/test_jsondate.py
index 78e08bf..04610ff 100644
--- a/tests/test_jsondate.py
+++ b/tests/test_jsondate.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import datetime
 import json
 import unittest
-import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 
 import jsondate
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def test_dumps_datelike_string_does_not_roundtrip(self):
 
     def test_dump_datetime_roundtrips(self):
         orig_dict = dict(created_at=datetime.date(2011, 1, 1))
-        fileobj = StringIO.StringIO()
+        fileobj = StringIO()
         jsondate.dump(orig_dict, fileobj)
         fileobj.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(orig_dict, jsondate.load(fileobj))