[benchmark] Remove Python 2 logic

benchmark/scripts/Benchmark_Driver

@@ -408,12 +408,7 @@ class MarkdownReportHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
         msg = self.format(record)
         stream = self.stream
         try:
-            # In Python 2 Unicode strings have a special type
-            unicode_type = unicode
-        except NameError:
-            unicode_type = str
-        try:
-            if isinstance(msg, unicode_type) and getattr(stream, "encoding", None):
+            if isinstance(msg, str) and getattr(stream, "encoding", None):
                 stream.write(msg.encode(stream.encoding))
             else:
                 stream.write(msg)

benchmark/scripts/test_Benchmark_Driver.py

@@ -18,13 +18,7 @@
 import sys
 import time
 import unittest
-
-try:
-    # for Python 2
-    from StringIO import StringIO
-except ImportError:
-    # for Python 3
-    from io import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 
 from compare_perf_tests import PerformanceTestResult
 

benchmark/scripts/test_utils.py

@@ -24,11 +24,8 @@
 
 import logging
 import sys
-try:
-    from StringIO import StringIO  # for Python 2
-except ImportError:
-    from io import StringIO  # for Python 3
 from contextlib import contextmanager
+from io import StringIO
 
 
 @contextmanager