+++ /dev/null
-
-def as_string(string):
- """
- Ensure that whatever type of string is incoming, it is returned as an
- actual string, versus 'bytes' which Python 3 likes to use.
- """
- if isinstance(string, bytes):
- # we really ignore here if we can't properly decode with utf-8
- return string.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
- return string