--- a/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wheel/util.py	Mon Jul 27 03:47:31 2020 -0400
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-import base64
-import io
-import sys
-
-
-if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-    text_type = unicode  # noqa: F821
-
-    StringIO = io.BytesIO
-
-    def native(s, encoding='utf-8'):
-        if isinstance(s, unicode):  # noqa: F821
-            return s.encode(encoding)
-        return s
-else:
-    text_type = str
-
-    StringIO = io.StringIO
-
-    def native(s, encoding='utf-8'):
-        if isinstance(s, bytes):
-            return s.decode(encoding)
-        return s
-
-
-def urlsafe_b64encode(data):
-    """urlsafe_b64encode without padding"""
-    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(data).rstrip(b'=')
-
-
-def urlsafe_b64decode(data):
-    """urlsafe_b64decode without padding"""
-    pad = b'=' * (4 - (len(data) & 3))
-    return base64.urlsafe_b64decode(data + pad)
-
-
-def as_unicode(s):
-    if isinstance(s, bytes):
-        return s.decode('utf-8')
-    return s
-
-
-def as_bytes(s):
-    if isinstance(s, text_type):
-        return s.encode('utf-8')
-    return s