>> moved decode() function to pandas.py module

>> deleted compat.py module

Author: alixdamman

larray/inout/pandas.py

@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@
 from larray.core.axis import Axis, AxisCollection
 from larray.core.constants import nan
 from larray.util.misc import unique
-from larray.util.compat import decode
+
+
+def decode(s, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'):
+    if isinstance(s, bytes):
+        return s.decode(encoding, errors)
+    else:
+        assert s is None or isinstance(s, str), "unexpected " + str(type(s))
+        return s
 
 
 def parse(s):