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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _safe_unicode(o):
 """ Returns an equivalent unicode object, trying harder to avoid dependencies on the Python default encoding. """

    def clean(s):
        return u''.join([c if c in ASCII_PRINTABLE else '?' for c in s])
    if USING_PYTHON2:
        try:
            return unicode(o)
        except:
            try:
                s = str(o)
                try:
                    return s.decode("utf-8")
                except:
                    return clean(s[:2048]) + u" [Raw error message: " + unicode(s.encode("hex"), 'utf-8') + u"]"
            except:
                return u"(Unable to decode Python exception message)"
    else:
        return str(o)