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+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