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# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

import ast
import os


def normsep(path):
    """
    Normalize path separators, by using forward slashes instead of whatever
    :py:const:`os.sep` is.
    """
    if os.sep != "/":
        # Python 2 is happy to do things like byte_string.replace(u'foo',
        # u'bar'), but not Python 3.
        if isinstance(path, bytes):
            path = path.replace(os.sep.encode("ascii"), b"/")
        else:
            path = path.replace(os.sep, "/")
    if os.altsep and os.altsep != "/":
        if isinstance(path, bytes):
            path = path.replace(os.altsep.encode("ascii"), b"/")
        else:
            path = path.replace(os.altsep, "/")
    return path


def evaluate_list_from_string(list_string):
    """
    This is a utility function for converting a string obtained from a manifest
    into a list. If the string is not a valid list when converted, an error will be
    raised from `ast.eval_literal`. For example, you can convert entries like this
    into a list:
    ```
        test_settings=
            ["hello", "world"],
            [1, 10, 100],
        values=
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
    ```
    """
    return ast.literal_eval("[" + "".join(list_string.strip(",").split("\n")) + "]")
