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| -rw-r--r-- | git/compat.py | 10 |
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diff --git a/git/compat.py b/git/compat.py index d6be6ede..e760575d 100644 --- a/git/compat.py +++ b/git/compat.py @@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ def safe_decode(s): raise TypeError('Expected bytes or text, but got %r' % (s,)) +def safe_encode(s): + """Safely decodes a binary string to unicode""" + if isinstance(s, unicode): + return s.encode(defenc) + elif isinstance(s, bytes): + return s + elif s is not None: + raise TypeError('Expected bytes or text, but got %r' % (s,)) + + def with_metaclass(meta, *bases): """copied from https://github.com/Byron/bcore/blob/master/src/python/butility/future.py#L15""" class metaclass(meta): |