[pypy-issue] [issue1221] raw_input() returns unicode, not str

[Dave Malcolm]

New submission from Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:

For a translated build of PyPy 1.9, raw_input() is returning a unicode, and on IRC people confirmed that this was 
also seen with nightly.

However, with untranslated (56219:c8cdf66b371a) it returns a str, which is what CPython returns.

This breaks the commands within help(), e.g. "modules", making it show help on the unicode type, rather than a list 
of modules, due to this conditional in lib-python/2.7/pydoc.py:Helper.help failing:
   if type(request) is type(''):

[reported downstream as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841546]

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title: raw_input() returns unicode, not str

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