Add ByteRange/StringPiece Conversion for Cython

Summary:
Moving the cython definition to folly/python.
Adding simple conversion helper to_bytes

This is to cut down on duplicate folly::range cython definitions

Reviewed By: yfeldblum

Differential Revision: D6291125

fbshipit-source-id: 314b732a1516a03fb5c9a57939552bbabd81970b

diff --git a/folly/python/range.pxd b/folly/python/range.pxd
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+cdef extern from "folly/Range.h" namespace "folly":
+    cdef cppclass Range[T]:
+        Range()
+        Range(T, int)
+        T data()
+        int size()
+
+ctypedef Range[const char*] StringPiece
+ctypedef Range[const unsigned char*] ByteRange
+
+ctypedef fused R:
+    StringPiece
+    ByteRange
+
+# Conversion Helpers
+cdef inline bytes to_bytes(R range):
+    return <bytes>range.data()[:range.size()]