python3-banal 1.0.6-3 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu noble

 Commons of Python micro-functions. This basically an out-sourced, shared
 utils module with a focus on functions that buffer type uncertainties in
 Python (e.g. "is this a list?").
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 Functions:
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  * is_listish: check if something is list-ish
  * is_mapping: check if an object is dict-ish
  * ensure_list: make sure an argument is a list, or make it into a
    single-element list
  * clean_dict: remove null values from a dict, recursively
  * decode_path: decode a path name to be unicode
  * hash_data: generate a SHA1 from a dict of reasonable objects