#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

import sys

import platform

__version__ = '.'.join((str(each) for each in VERSION[:4]))

__dbversion__ = 5  # defines current db version for migrations

__platform__ = platform.system()

__license__ = 'GPLv3'

__py_version__ = sys.version_info

    :param unicode_: unicode to encode

    :rtype: str

    :returns: str object

    """

    if not isinstance(unicode_, basestring):

        return str(unicode_)

    if isinstance(unicode_, str):

        return unicode_