old_contents: # IdeaScaly
  # Copyright 2015 Jorge Saldivar
  # See LICENSE for details.
  
  import six
  import dateutil.parser
  
  
  def parse_datetime(str_date):
      try:
          date_is = dateutil.parser.parse(str_date)
          return date_is
      except:
          return None
  
  def parse_html_value(html):
      return html[html.find('>')+1:html.rfind('<')]
  
  
  def parse_a_href(atag):
      start = atag.find('"') + 1
      end = atag.find('"', start)
      return atag[start:end]
  
  
  def convert_to_utf8_str(arg):
      # written by Michael Norton (http://docondev.blogspot.com/)
      if isinstance(arg, bytes):
          arg = arg.decode('ascii')
      if isinstance(arg, six.text_type):
          arg = arg.encode('utf-8')
      elif not isinstance(arg, bytes):
          arg = six.text_type(arg).encode('utf-8')
      return arg
  
  
  def import_simplejson():
      try:
          import simplejson as json
      except ImportError:
          try:
              import json  # Python 2.6+
          except ImportError:
              raise ImportError("Can't load a json library")
  
      return json
new_contents: # IdeaScaly
  # Copyright 2015 Jorge Saldivar
  # See LICENSE for details.
  
  import six
  import dateutil.parser
  
  
  def parse_datetime(str_date):
      try:
          date_is = dateutil.parser.parse(str_date)
          return date_is
      except:
          return None
  
  def parse_html_value(html):
      return html[html.find('>')+1:html.rfind('<')]
  
  
  def parse_a_href(atag):
      start = atag.find('"') + 1
      end = atag.find('"', start)
      return atag[start:end]
  
  
  def convert_to_utf8_str(arg):
      # written by Michael Norton (http://docondev.blogspot.com/)
      if isinstance(arg, six.text_type):
          arg = arg.encode('utf-8')
      elif not isinstance(arg, bytes):
          arg = six.text_type(arg).encode('utf-8')
      return arg
  
  
  def import_simplejson():
      try:
          import simplejson as json
      except ImportError:
          try:
              import json  # Python 2.6+
          except ImportError:
              raise ImportError("Can't load a json library")
  
      return json
subject: Remove conditional that checked type of arg