def METHOD_NAME(field_def_protos):
  """Converts MetricFieldDefinition protos to (field-name, type) tuples."""
  # TODO: This needs fixing for Python 3.
  field_def_tuples = []
  for proto in field_def_protos:
    if proto.field_type == rdf_stats.MetricFieldDefinition.FieldType.INT:
      field_type = int
    elif proto.field_type == rdf_stats.MetricFieldDefinition.FieldType.STR:
      # Use old style str in Python 2 here or the streamz library will break.
      field_type = str
    else:
      raise ValueError("Unknown field type: %s" % proto.field_type)
    field_def_tuples.append((proto.field_name, field_type))
  return field_def_tuples