'
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlconverter.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlconverter.py
index da748469c2..4bef9a306b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlconverter.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlconverter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
'''
Convert pml markup to and from html
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ class PML_HTMLizer(object):
return html
def start_line(self):
- start = u''
+ start = ''
state = deepcopy(self.state)
div = []
@@ -258,10 +259,10 @@ class PML_HTMLizer(object):
else:
start += self.STATES_TAGS[key][0]
- return u'%s' % start
+ return '
%s' % start
def end_line(self):
- end = u''
+ end = ''
div = []
span = []
@@ -281,10 +282,10 @@ class PML_HTMLizer(object):
else:
end += self.STATES_TAGS[key][1]
- return u'%s
' % end
+ return '%s