diff --git a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
index acaa5a0d43af09fb57035b7b62de26b49551e5b1..f481064435a30e5e108a7b45684b6ad21140320b 100644
--- a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
+++ b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ def test_pipreqcheck_virtualenv_packages(host, pip_path, expected_packages):
     packages = host.run("sudo -u %s %s freeze --all" % ('pipreqcheck', pip_path))
 
     # Normalise package names and order.
-    expected_packages = sorted([unicode(p.lower()) for p in expected_packages])
+    expected_packages = sorted([p.lower() for p in expected_packages])
     actual_packages = sorted(packages.stdout.lower().strip().split("\n"))
 
     # This is a dummy distro-provided package ignored by the pip-tools.