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to_unicode_or_bust.py
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| # Use this function to decode early | |
| def to_unicode_or_bust( obj, encoding='utf-8-sig'): | |
| if isinstance(obj, bytes): | |
| obj = unicode(obj, encoding) | |
| return obj | |
| # use .encode('utf-8') to encode late |
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