Merge pull request #1599 from Abhishek-Dev09/compat#295

Add new compatibility layer for Python 2 and 3 #295

Author: pombredanne

src/commoncode/compat.py

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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 nexB Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
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+#
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+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+try:
+    # Python 2
+    unicode = unicode  # NOQA
+
+except NameError:  # pragma: nocover
+    # Python 3
+    unicode = str  # NOQA
+
+string_types = str, bytes, unicode,
+
+try:
+    # Python 2
+    long = long  # NOQA
+
+except NameError:  # pragma: nocover
+    # Python 3
+    long = int  # NOQA
+
+integer_types = int, long,