equal not work properly when compare str with unicode

[tiger-flying]

The following code snippet demonstrates the issue(run on OSX):

from robber import expect
import json
abc=json.loads('{"a": "abc"}')

expect(abc['a']).to.equal('abc')

Run the above will generate the following exception message:

BadExpectation: u'Expected "abc" to be "abc"'

If I replace equal to eq(namely, expect(abc['a']).to.eq('abc')), then it works

[tiger-flying]

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm using python 2.7

[hieueastagile]

@tiger-flying Actually, the right expectation should be:

expect(abc['a']).to.eq('abc')

equal just use for checking identical