From 059f9bff62d3bfe53eeece409b48b879abd1a3b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MomIsBestFriend <50263213+MomIsBestFriend@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:14:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CLN: Remove PY2 compat code (#32677)

Co-authored-by: MomIsBestFriend <>
---
 pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py b/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
index 359e5b956f8a5..145cf43112be3 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
@@ -985,12 +985,7 @@ def get_empty_frame(data) -> DataFrame:
     if prefix is None:
         dummy_cols = levels
     else:
-
-        # PY2 embedded unicode, gh-22084
-        def _make_col_name(prefix, prefix_sep, level) -> str:
-            return f"{prefix}{prefix_sep}{level}"
-
-        dummy_cols = [_make_col_name(prefix, prefix_sep, level) for level in levels]
+        dummy_cols = [f"{prefix}{prefix_sep}{level}" for level in levels]
 
     index: Optional[Index]
     if isinstance(data, Series):