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+# copyright 2003-2015 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of astroid.
+#
+# astroid is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
+# Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
+# option) any later version.
+#
+# astroid is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with astroid. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Various helper utilities.
+"""
+
+import six
+
+from astroid import bases
+from astroid import exceptions
+from astroid import manager
+from astroid import raw_building
+from astroid import scoped_nodes
+
+
+BUILTINS = six.moves.builtins.__name__
+
+
+def _build_proxy_class(cls_name, builtins):
+    proxy = raw_building.build_class(cls_name)
+    proxy.parent = builtins
+    return proxy
+
+
+def _function_type(function, builtins):
+    if isinstance(function, scoped_nodes.Lambda):
+        if function.root().name == BUILTINS:
+            cls_name = 'builtin_function_or_method'
+        else:
+            cls_name = 'function'
+    elif isinstance(function, bases.BoundMethod):
+        if six.PY2:
+            cls_name = 'instancemethod'
+        else:
+            cls_name = 'method'
+    elif isinstance(function, bases.UnboundMethod):
+        if six.PY2:
+            cls_name = 'instancemethod'
+        else:
+            cls_name = 'function'
+    return _build_proxy_class(cls_name, builtins)
+
+
+def _object_type(node, context=None):
+    astroid_manager = manager.AstroidManager()
+    builtins = astroid_manager.astroid_cache[BUILTINS]
+    context = context or bases.InferenceContext()
+
+    for inferred in node.infer(context=context):
+        if isinstance(inferred, scoped_nodes.Class):
+            if inferred.newstyle:
+                metaclass = inferred.metaclass()
+                if metaclass:
+                    yield metaclass
+                    continue
+            yield builtins.getattr('type')[0]
+        elif isinstance(inferred, (scoped_nodes.Lambda, bases.UnboundMethod)):
+            yield _function_type(inferred, builtins)
+        elif isinstance(inferred, scoped_nodes.Module):
+            yield _build_proxy_class('module', builtins)
+        else:
+            yield inferred._proxied
+
+
+def object_type(node, context=None):
+    """Obtain the type of the given node
+
+    The node will be inferred first, so this function can support all
+    sorts of objects, as long as they support inference. It will try to
+    retrieve the Python type, as returned by the builtin `type`.
+    """
+
+    try:
+        types = set(_object_type(node, context))
+    except exceptions.InferenceError:
+        return bases.YES
+    if len(types) > 1:
+        return bases.YES
+    return list(types)[0]