From 5b2bf19685d617cb4512e43f3ae23c8948b1554d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:47:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary bytes type check from path.write_text()

All code passes type str to the method. Per the type signature, only str
is allowed.
---
 sphinx/testing/path.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sphinx/testing/path.py b/sphinx/testing/path.py
index 77df1ab9b..56ae27f72 100644
--- a/sphinx/testing/path.py
+++ b/sphinx/testing/path.py
@@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ class path(text_type):
         """
         Writes the given `text` to the file.
         """
-        if isinstance(text, bytes):
-            text = text.decode(encoding)
         with open(self, 'w', encoding=encoding, **kwargs) as f:
             f.write(text)