TMSS-153: removed strange string conversion lines which do not appear to be...

TMSS-153: removed strange string conversion lines which do not appear to be needed anymore now that we use python3. And if we do need the conversion, then this implementation is wrong, as it converts everyting to string, not just unicode-strings

LCS/pyparameterset/src/__init__.py

@@ -153,12 +153,6 @@ class parameterset(PyParameterSet):
 
     def adoptDict(self, parms):
         for (k,v) in list(parms.items()):
-            # str(container) calls __repr__ on its items, which ends
-            # badly for us for lists of unicode strings ([u"a"] -> ['ua']).
-            # We thus stringify the items first.
-            if isinstance(v, list):
-                v = [str(x) for x in v]
-
             self.replace (str(k), str(v))  # k, v always type string
 
     @staticmethod