How to use the idna.core function in idna

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from __future__ import print_function

import idna.core
import sys

print(idna.core, "idna.idnadata" in sys.modules)

def idna_encode(name):
        """
        Borrowed wholesale from the Python Cryptography Project. It turns out
        that we can't just safely call `idna.encode`: it can explode for
        wildcard names. This avoids that problem.
        """
        import idna

        try:
            for prefix in [u'*.', u'.']:
                if name.startswith(prefix):
                    name = name[len(prefix):]
                    return prefix.encode('ascii') + idna.encode(name)
            return idna.encode(name)
        except idna.core.IDNAError:
            return None

def idna_encode(name):
        """
        Borrowed wholesale from the Python Cryptography Project. It turns out
        that we can't just safely call `idna.encode`: it can explode for
        wildcard names. This avoids that problem.
        """
        import idna

        try:
            for prefix in [u"*.", u"."]:
                if name.startswith(prefix):
                    name = name[len(prefix) :]
                    return prefix.encode("ascii") + idna.encode(name)
            return idna.encode(name)
        except idna.core.IDNAError:
            return None

def idna_encode(name):
        """
        Borrowed wholesale from the Python Cryptography Project. It turns out
        that we can't just safely call `idna.encode`: it can explode for
        wildcard names. This avoids that problem.
        """
        import idna

        try:
            for prefix in [u"*.", u"."]:
                if name.startswith(prefix):
                    name = name[len(prefix) :]
                    return prefix.encode("ascii") + idna.encode(name)
            return idna.encode(name)
        except idna.core.IDNAError:
            return None

def idna_encode(name):
        """
        Borrowed wholesale from the Python Cryptography Project. It turns out
        that we can't just safely call `idna.encode`: it can explode for
        wildcard names. This avoids that problem.
        """
        import idna

        try:
            for prefix in [u"*.", u"."]:
                if name.startswith(prefix):
                    name = name[len(prefix) :]
                    return prefix.encode("ascii") + idna.encode(name)
            return idna.encode(name)
        except idna.core.IDNAError:
            return None