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+#-*-coding:utf-8-*-
+# config.py
+# Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Michael Trier (mtrier@gmail.com) and contributors
+#
+# This module is part of GitPython and is released under
+# the BSD License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
+"""utilities to help provide compatibility with python 3"""
+# flake8: noqa
+
+import sys
+
+from gitdb.utils.compat import (
+    PY3,
+    xrange,
+    MAXSIZE,
+    izip,
+)
+
+from gitdb.utils.encoding import (
+    string_types,
+    text_type,
+    force_bytes,
+    force_text
+)
+
+defenc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
+if PY3:
+    import io
+    FileType = io.IOBase
+    def byte_ord(b):
+        return b
+    def bchr(n):
+        return bytes([n])
+    def mviter(d):
+        return d.values()
+else:
+    FileType = file
+    # usually, this is just ascii, which might not enough for our encoding needs
+    # Unless it's set specifically, we override it to be utf-8
+    if defenc == 'ascii':
+        defenc = 'utf-8'
+    byte_ord = ord
+    bchr = chr
+    def mviter(d):
+        return d.itervalues()
+
+
+def with_metaclass(meta, *bases):
+    """copied from https://github.com/Byron/bcore/blob/master/src/python/butility/future.py#L15"""
+    class metaclass(meta):
+        __call__ = type.__call__
+        __init__ = type.__init__
+
+        def __new__(cls, name, nbases, d):
+            if nbases is None:
+                return type.__new__(cls, name, (), d)
+            # There may be clients who rely on this attribute to be set to a reasonable value, which is why
+            # we set the __metaclass__ attribute explicitly
+            if not PY3 and '___metaclass__' not in d:
+                d['__metaclass__'] = meta
+            # end
+            return meta(name, bases, d)
+        # end
+    # end metaclass
+    return metaclass(meta.__name__ + 'Helper', None, {})
+    # end handle py2