--- /dev/null
+DIST bert-2.0.0.tar.gz 3503 BLAKE2B 6435177493a822166e2f5e2c461f17deb9553aa3aec8893d15e057da9907ae4949246fb19299a1263905e648e0483d2e4cfeddbd2915f2c0d147a0a2bc62daf0 SHA512 643392ab1f8f0cecad9773846a52d5207f3dfeb431c6934b7cdfa523319c1c2aca4b9f8139d0a52ea759df03163b820adb963e4a21284e579a9d139da9acbeb3
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="BERT Serialization Library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bert"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+ dev-python/basho-erlastic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${P}-remove-basestring-fix.patch" )
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+--- a/bert/codec.py 2018-03-07 20:11:38.117925147 -0800
++++ b/bert/codec.py 2018-03-07 20:12:19.681258078 -0800
+@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
+ return (Atom("bert"), Atom("false"))
+ elif obj is None:
+ return (Atom("bert"), Atom("nil"))
+- elif isinstance(obj, basestring) and not self.__is_ascii(obj):
++ elif isinstance(obj, str) and not self.__is_ascii(obj):
+ return (Atom("bert"), Atom("string"), Atom(self.encoding.upper()), obj.encode(self.encoding))
+ elif isinstance(obj, dict):
+ return (Atom("bert"), Atom("dict"), [(self.convert(k), self.convert(v)) for k, v in obj.items()])
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="person">
+ <email>blueness@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Anthony G. Basile</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <upstream>
+ <remote-id type="pypi">bert</remote-id>
+ <remote-id type="github">samuel/python-bert</remote-id>
+ </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>