diff --git a/databases/py-leveldb/files/patch-leveldb_object.cc b/databases/py-leveldb/files/patch-leveldb_object.cc
index c76a6414b76a..70e34ef69459 100644
--- a/databases/py-leveldb/files/patch-leveldb_object.cc
+++ b/databases/py-leveldb/files/patch-leveldb_object.cc
@@ -1,29 +1,38 @@
 --- leveldb_object.cc.orig	2016-12-27 23:03:15 UTC
 +++ leveldb_object.cc
+@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ static int pyleveldb_str_eq(PyObject* p, const char* s
+ 	// unicode string
+ 	if (PyUnicode_Check(p)) {
+ 		size_t i = 0;
+-		Py_UNICODE* c = PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(p);
++		const char* c = PyUnicode_AsUTF8(p);
+ 
+ 		while (s[i] && c[i] && (int)s[i] == (int)c[i])
+ 			i++;
 @@ -901,9 +901,8 @@ static int PyLevelDB_init(PyLevelDB* sel
  	int block_size = 4096;
  	int max_open_files = 1000;
  	int block_restart_interval = 16;
 -  int max_file_size = 2 << 20;
  	const char* kwargs[] = {"filename", "create_if_missing", "error_if_exists", "paranoid_checks", "write_buffer_size",
 -    "block_size", "max_open_files", "block_restart_interval", "block_cache_size", "max_file_size", "comparator", 0};
 +    "block_size", "max_open_files", "block_restart_interval", "block_cache_size", "comparator", 0};
  
  	PyObject* comparator = 0;
  
 @@ -917,7 +916,6 @@ static int PyLevelDB_init(PyLevelDB* sel
  		&max_open_files,
  		&block_restart_interval,
  		&block_cache_size,
 -		&max_file_size,
  		&comparator))
  		return -1;
  
 @@ -963,7 +961,6 @@ static int PyLevelDB_init(PyLevelDB* sel
  	self->_options->block_restart_interval = block_restart_interval;
  	self->_options->compression = leveldb::kSnappyCompression;
  	self->_options->block_cache = self->_cache;
 -	self->_options->max_file_size = max_file_size;
  	self->_options->comparator = self->_comparator;
  	leveldb::Status status;