EVOLUTION-MANAGER

Edit File: encoding.py

"""Utilities for managing string types and encoding.""" import six def force_unicode(string, encoding='utf-8'): """Force a given string to be a unicode type. Args: string (bytes or unicode): The string to enforce. Returns: unicode: The string as a unicode type. Raises: ValueError: The given string was not a supported type. """ if isinstance(string, six.text_type): return string elif isinstance(string, bytes): return string.decode(encoding) else: raise ValueError('Provided string was neither bytes nor unicode')