Import StringIO so it can be used.stringio

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diff --git a/paste/util/converters.py b/paste/util/converters.py
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+# (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org)
+# Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+def asbool(obj):
+    if isinstance(obj, (str, unicode)):
+        obj = obj.strip().lower()
+        if obj in ['true', 'yes', 'on', 'y', 't', '1']:
+            return True
+        elif obj in ['false', 'no', 'off', 'n', 'f', '0']:
+            return False
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "String is not true/false: %r" % obj)
+    return bool(obj)
+
+def aslist(obj, sep=None, strip=True):
+    if isinstance(obj, (str, unicode)):
+        lst = obj.split(sep)
+        if strip:
+            lst = [v.strip() for v in lst]
+        return lst
+    elif isinstance(obj, (list, tuple)):
+        return obj
+    elif obj is None:
+        return []
+    else:
+        return [obj]