From f07ab807e5eb393121197307de5718db429b71a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Augspurger <tom.w.augspurger@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 06:22:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] str, bytes

---
 pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py b/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
index dbe0dda022637..0403b3fb28847 100644
--- a/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
+++ b/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
@@ -661,11 +661,11 @@ def construct_from_string(cls, string):
         raise TypeError("could not construct PeriodDtype")
 
     def __unicode__(self):
-        return self.name
+        return compat.text_type(self.name)
 
     @property
     def name(self):
-        return u"period[{freq}]".format(freq=self.freq.freqstr)
+        return str("period[{freq}]".format(freq=self.freq.freqstr))
 
     @property
     def na_value(self):