old_contents: """
  Utility functions to return a formatted name and description for a given view.
  """
  from __future__ import unicode_literals
  
  from django.utils.html import escape
  from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
  from rest_framework.compat import apply_markdown
  import re
  
  
  def remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
      """
      Strip trailing component `trailing` from `content` if it exists.
      Used when generating names from view classes.
      """
      if content.endswith(trailing) and content != trailing:
          return content[:-len(trailing)]
      return content
  
  
  def dedent(content):
      """
      Remove leading indent from a block of text.
      Used when generating descriptions from docstrings.
  
      Note that python's `textwrap.dedent` doesn't quite cut it,
      as it fails to dedent multiline docstrings that include
      unindented text on the initial line.
      """
      content = unicode(content)
      whitespace_counts = [len(line) - len(line.lstrip(' '))
                           for line in content.splitlines()[1:] if line.lstrip()]
  
      # unindent the content if needed
      if whitespace_counts:
          whitespace_pattern = '^' + (' ' * min(whitespace_counts))
          content = re.sub(re.compile(whitespace_pattern, re.MULTILINE), '', content)
  
      return content.strip()
  
  def camelcase_to_spaces(content):
      """
      Translate 'CamelCaseNames' to 'Camel Case Names'.
      Used when generating names from view classes.
      """
      camelcase_boundry = '(((?<=[a-z])[A-Z])|([A-Z](?![A-Z]|$)))'
      content = re.sub(camelcase_boundry, ' \\1', content).strip()
      return ' '.join(content.split('_')).title()
  
  def markup_description(description):
      """
      Apply HTML markup to the given description.
      """
      if apply_markdown:
          description = apply_markdown(description)
      else:
          description = escape(description).replace('\n', '<br />')
      return mark_safe(description)
  
new_contents: """
  Utility functions to return a formatted name and description for a given view.
  """
  from __future__ import unicode_literals
  
  from django.utils.html import escape
  from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
  from django.utils.encoding import force_text
  
  from rest_framework.compat import apply_markdown
  import re
  
  
  def remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
      """
      Strip trailing component `trailing` from `content` if it exists.
      Used when generating names from view classes.
      """
      if content.endswith(trailing) and content != trailing:
          return content[:-len(trailing)]
      return content
  
  
  def dedent(content):
      """
      Remove leading indent from a block of text.
      Used when generating descriptions from docstrings.
  
      Note that python's `textwrap.dedent` doesn't quite cut it,
      as it fails to dedent multiline docstrings that include
      unindented text on the initial line.
      """
      content = force_text(content)
      whitespace_counts = [len(line) - len(line.lstrip(' '))
                           for line in content.splitlines()[1:] if line.lstrip()]
  
      # unindent the content if needed
      if whitespace_counts:
          whitespace_pattern = '^' + (' ' * min(whitespace_counts))
          content = re.sub(re.compile(whitespace_pattern, re.MULTILINE), '', content)
  
      return content.strip()
  
  def camelcase_to_spaces(content):
      """
      Translate 'CamelCaseNames' to 'Camel Case Names'.
      Used when generating names from view classes.
      """
      camelcase_boundry = '(((?<=[a-z])[A-Z])|([A-Z](?![A-Z]|$)))'
      content = re.sub(camelcase_boundry, ' \\1', content).strip()
      return ' '.join(content.split('_')).title()
  
  def markup_description(description):
      """
      Apply HTML markup to the given description.
      """
      if apply_markdown:
          description = apply_markdown(description)
      else:
          description = escape(description).replace('\n', '<br />')
      return mark_safe(description)
  
subject: replace unicode call with force_text