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+"""Python 2/3 compatibility definitions.
+
+These are used by the rest of Elpy to keep compatibility definitions
+in one place.
+
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    PYTHON3 = True
+
+    from io import StringIO
+
+    def ensure_not_unicode(obj):
+        return obj
+else:
+    PYTHON3 = False
+
+    from StringIO import StringIO  # noqa
+
+    def ensure_not_unicode(obj):
+        """Return obj. If it's a unicode string, convert it to str first.
+
+        Pydoc functions simply don't find anything for unicode
+        strings. No idea why.
+
+        """
+        if isinstance(obj, unicode):
+            return obj.encode("utf-8")
+        else:
+            return obj