def convert_to_unicode(text):
    """Converts `text` to Unicode (if it's not already), assuming utf-8 input."""
    if six.PY3:
        if isinstance(text, str):
            return text
        elif isinstance(text, bytes):
            return text.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
        else:
            raise ValueError("Unsupported string type: %s" % (type(text)))
    elif six.PY2:
        if isinstance(text, str):
            return text.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
        elif isinstance(text, unicode):
            return text
        else:
            raise ValueError("Unsupported string type: %s" % (type(text)))
    else:
        raise ValueError("Not running on Python2 or Python 3?")
Converts `text` to Unicode (if it's not already), assuming utf-8 input.
training/DeepSpeed-Domino/megatron/tokenizer/bert_tokenization.py