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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2014 Rackspace
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+import sys
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    unicode = str  # Python 3.x
+
+
+def to_str(b, encoding):
+    if hasattr(b, 'decode') and not isinstance(b, unicode):
+        b = b.decode('utf-8')
+    return b
+
+
+def to_bytes(s, encoding):
+    if hasattr(s, 'encode') and not isinstance(s, bytes):
+        s = s.encode('utf-8')
+    return s