pycompat: introduce identity function as a compat stub
I was sometimes too lazy to use 'str' instead of 'lambda a: a'. Let's add
a named function for that purpose.
http://example.com/no/anchor, branches: (None, [])
http://example.com/an/anchor, branches: ('foo', [])
http://example.com/no/anchor/branches, branches: (None, ['foo'])
http://example.com/an/anchor/branches, branches: ('bar', ['foo'])
http://example.com/an/anchor/branches-None, branches: ('foo', [])
http://example.com/, branches: (None, [])
http://example.com/, branches: (None, [])
http://example.com/, branches: ('foo', [])