diff --git a/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py b/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
--- a/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
@@ -964,6 +964,4 @@
 def evalpythonliteral(s):
     """Evaluate a string containing a Python literal expression"""
     # We could backport our tokenizer hack to rewrite '' to u'' if we want
-    if pycompat.ispy3:
-        return ast.literal_eval(s.decode('latin1'))
-    return ast.literal_eval(s)
+    return ast.literal_eval(s.decode('latin1'))