Function cast_unicode

traitlets/utils/__init__.py:9–12

(s: str | bytes, encoding: str = "utf-8")

# vestigal things from IPython_genutils.
def cast_unicode(s: str | bytes, encoding: str = "utf-8") -> str:
    if isinstance(s, bytes):
        return s.decode(encoding, "replace")
    return s


def filefind(filename: str, path_dirs: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> str: