Compatibility wrapper module to make rsa work with various versions of Python.
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import unittest2
+import struct
+
+from rsa._compat import is_bytes, byte
+
+class Test_byte(unittest2.TestCase):
+    def test_byte(self):
+        for i in range(256):
+            byt = byte(i)
+            self.assertTrue(is_bytes(byt))
+            self.assertEqual(ord(byt), i)
+
+    def test_raises_StructError_on_overflow(self):
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, byte, 256)
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, byte, -1)