import sys


system_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()

if system_encoding != "utf-8":

    def make_safe(string):
        # replaces any character not representable using the system default encoding with an '?',
        # avoiding UnicodeEncodeError (https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/729).
        return string.encode(system_encoding, errors="replace").decode(system_encoding)

else:

    def make_safe(string):
        # utf-8 can encode any Unicode code point, so no need to do the round-trip encoding
        return string


def exact_div(x, y):
    assert x % y == 0
    return x // y