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+"""Internal module for Python 2 backwards compatibility."""
+import sys
+
+
+if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+    from urlparse import urlparse
+    from itertools import imap, izip
+    from string import letters as ascii_letters
+    try:
+        from cStringIO import StringIO as BytesIO
+    except ImportError:
+        from StringIO import StringIO as BytesIO
+
+    iteritems = lambda x: x.iteritems()
+    dictkeys = lambda x: x.keys()
+    dictvalues = lambda x: x.values()
+    nativestr = lambda x: x if isinstance(x, str) else x.encode(errors='replace')
+    u = lambda x: x.decode()
+    b = lambda x: x
+    next = lambda x: x.next()
+    byte_to_chr = lambda x: x
+    unichr = unichr
+    xrange = xrange
+    basestring = basestring
+    unicode = unicode
+    bytes = str
+    long = long
+else:
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse
+    from io import BytesIO
+    from string import ascii_letters
+
+    iteritems = lambda x: x.items()
+    dictkeys = lambda x: list(x.keys())
+    dictvalues = lambda x: list(x.values())
+    byte_to_chr = lambda x: chr(x)
+    nativestr = lambda x: x if isinstance(x, str) else x.decode(errors='replace')
+    u = lambda x: x
+    b = lambda x: x.encode('iso-8859-1')
+    next = next
+    unichr = chr
+    imap = map
+    izip = zip
+    xrange = range
+    basestring = str
+    unicode = str
+    bytes = bytes
+    long = int