+
+
+def platform_name():
+ """ Returns the platform name as a compat_str """
+ res = platform.platform()
+ if isinstance(res, bytes):
+ res = res.decode(preferredencoding())
+
+ assert isinstance(res, compat_str)
+ return res
+
+
+def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
+ if not bs:
+ return []
+ if isinstance(bs[0], int): # Python 3
+ return list(bs)
+ else:
+ return [ord(c) for c in bs]
+
+
+def intlist_to_bytes(xs):
+ if not xs:
+ return b''
+ if isinstance(chr(0), bytes): # Python 2
+ return ''.join([chr(x) for x in xs])
+ else:
+ return bytes(xs)