Function maybe_decode

magic/__init__.py:232–239

(s)

# return str on python3.  Don't want to unconditionally
# decode because that results in unicode on python2
def maybe_decode(s):
    # NEXTBREAK: remove
    if str == bytes:
        return s
    else:
        # backslashreplace here because sometimes libmagic will return metadata in the charset
        # of the file, which is unknown to us (e.g the title of a Word doc)
        return s.decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace')


try: