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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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