diff --git a/stdlib/2/inspect.pyi b/stdlib/2/inspect.pyi
index c5ed0ca7fa66..6f6fea49cae7 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/inspect.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/inspect.pyi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from types import CodeType, TracebackType, FrameType, FunctionType, MethodType, ModuleType
-from typing import Any, Dict, Callable, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Type, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, Callable, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Type, Union, AnyStr
 
 # Types and members
 class EndOfBlock(Exception): ...
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ class BlockFinder:
     started: bool
     passline: bool
     last: int
-    def tokeneater(self, type: int, token: str, srow_scol: Tuple[int, int],
-                   erow_ecol: Tuple[int, int], line: str) -> None: ...
+    def tokeneater(self, type: int, token: AnyStr, srow_scol: Tuple[int, int],
+                   erow_ecol: Tuple[int, int], line: AnyStr) -> None: ...
 
 CO_GENERATOR: int
 CO_NESTED: int
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ def getmembers(
     object: object,
     predicate: Optional[Callable[[Any], bool]] = ...
 ) -> List[Tuple[str, Any]]: ...
-def getmoduleinfo(path: str) -> Optional[ModuleInfo]: ...
-def getmodulename(path: str) -> Optional[str]: ...
+def getmoduleinfo(path: Union[str, unicode]) -> Optional[ModuleInfo]: ...
+def getmodulename(path: AnyStr) -> Optional[AnyStr]: ...
 
 def ismodule(object: object) -> bool: ...
 def isclass(object: object) -> bool: ...
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ _SourceObjectType = Union[ModuleType, Type[Any], MethodType, FunctionType, Trace
 
 def findsource(object: _SourceObjectType) -> Tuple[List[str], int]: ...
 def getabsfile(object: _SourceObjectType) -> str: ...
-def getblock(lines: Sequence[str]) -> Sequence[str]: ...
+def getblock(lines: Sequence[AnyStr]) -> Sequence[AnyStr]: ...
 def getdoc(object: object) -> Optional[str]: ...
 def getcomments(object: object) -> Optional[str]: ...
 def getfile(object: _SourceObjectType) -> str: ...
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ def getmodule(object: object) -> Optional[ModuleType]: ...
 def getsourcefile(object: _SourceObjectType) -> Optional[str]: ...
 def getsourcelines(object: _SourceObjectType) -> Tuple[List[str], int]: ...
 def getsource(object: _SourceObjectType) -> str: ...
-def cleandoc(doc: str) -> str: ...
-def indentsize(line: str) -> int: ...
+def cleandoc(doc: AnyStr) -> AnyStr: ...
+def indentsize(line: Union[str, unicode]) -> int: ...
 
 # Classes and functions
 def getclasstree(classes: List[type], unique: bool = ...) -> List[Union[Tuple[type, Tuple[type, ...]], List[Any]]]: ...