# distutils: language=c++

# Cython helper functions

def stdstring(pystring):
	""" convert a Python string to a bytes object which is automatically coerced to std::string"""
	pybytes = pystring.encode("utf-8")
	return pybytes

def pystring(stdstring):
	""" convert a std::string (= python byte string) to a normal Python string"""
	return stdstring.decode("utf-8")