Source code for freegenes.logger.compatibility

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[docs]def decodeUtf8String(inputStr):
    '''Convert an UTF8 sequence into a string

    Required for compatibility with Python 2 where str==bytes
    inputStr -- Either a str or bytes instance with UTF8 encoding
    '''
    return inputStr if isinstance(inputStr, str) or not isinstance(inputStr, bytes) else inputStr.decode('utf8')