code: def expand_curielike(namespaces, curie):
      
  
      if curie == '':
          return None
      if sys.version < '3' and not isinstance(curie, type(u'')):
          # Python 2 ConfigParser gives raw byte strings
          curie = curie.decode('UTF-8')  # ...make those into Unicode objects
  
      if curie.startswith('[') and curie.endswith(']'):
          # decode SafeCURIE
          curie = curie[1:-1]
  
      if ':' in curie:
          ns, localpart = curie.split(':', 1)
      elif '.' in curie:
          ns, localpart = curie.split('.', 1)
      else:
          return curie
  
      if ns in namespaces:
          return URIRef(namespaces[ns].term(localpart))
      else:
          logging.warning("Unknown namespace prefix %s", ns)
          return URIRef(curie)
docs: Expand a CURIE (or a CURIE-like string with a period instead of colon
      as separator) into URIRef. If the provided curie is not a CURIE, return it
      unchanged.