roll back redundancy first
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ def mapper_from_function(funcspec):
def mapper_from_hdf5(topol_group, hashval):
'''Retrieve the mapper identified by ``hashval`` from the given bin topology group
``topol_group``. Returns ``(mapper, pickle, hashval)``'''
- if not isinstance(hashval, bytes):
- hashval = bytes(hashval, 'utf8')
-
try:
index_ds = topol_group['index']
pickle_ds = topol_group['pickles']
