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3 # Ian Cordasco - port to Python
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24 if sys
.version_info
< (3, 0):
25 base_str
= (str, unicode)
27 base_str
= (bytes
, str)
31 if sys
.version_info
< (3, 0) and isinstance(a
, base_str
):