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Provides utility functions that are consumed internally by Requests which depend on extremely few external helpers (such as compat)

Function to​_native​_string Given a string object, regardless of type, returns a representation of that string in the native string type, encoding and decoding where necessary. This assumes ASCII unless told otherwise.
Function unicode​_is​_ascii Determine if unicode string only contains ASCII characters.
def to_native_string(string, encoding='ascii'):
Given a string object, regardless of type, returns a representation of that string in the native string type, encoding and decoding where necessary. This assumes ASCII unless told otherwise.
def unicode_is_ascii(u_string):
Determine if unicode string only contains ASCII characters.
Parameters
u​_stringUndocumented
str u​_stringunicode string to check. Must be unicode and not Python 2 str.
Returns
boolUndocumented