text: """Compatibility layer for Python 3."""
  
  import sys
  try:
      from urllib import request as urllib
  except:
      # Python 2
      import urllib
  try:
      import xmlrpclib
  except:  # pragma: no cover
      # Python 3
      import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib
  
  
  if sys.version[0] == '3':  # pragma: no cover
      def text(byte_string):
          return str(byte_string, 'utf-8')
  else:  # pragma: no cover
      def text(s):
          return s
  