Merge pull request #9916 from nburns/remove_unnecessary_conditional

ENH: Remove Unnecessary Conditional

Author: shoyer

pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -794,10 +794,7 @@ def from_records(cls, data, index=None, exclude=None, columns=None,
                 return cls()
 
             try:
-                if compat.PY3:
-                    first_row = next(data)
-                else:
-                    first_row = next(data)
+                first_row = next(data)
             except StopIteration:
                 return cls(index=index, columns=columns)