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+# (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org)
+# Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+
+class ClassInitMeta(type):
+
+ def __new__(meta, class_name, bases, new_attrs):
+ cls = type.__new__(meta, class_name, bases, new_attrs)
+ if (new_attrs.has_key('__classinit__')
+ and not isinstance(cls.__classinit__, staticmethod)):
+ setattr(cls, '__classinit__',
+ staticmethod(cls.__classinit__.im_func))
+ if hasattr(cls, '__classinit__'):
+ cls.__classinit__(cls, new_attrs)
+ return cls
+
+def build_properties(cls, new_attrs):
+ """
+ Given a class and a new set of attributes (as passed in by
+ __classinit__), create or modify properties based on functions
+ with special names ending in __get, __set, and __del.
+ """
+ for name, value in new_attrs.items():
+ if (name.endswith('__get') or name.endswith('__set')
+ or name.endswith('__del')):
+ base = name[:-5]
+ if hasattr(cls, base):
+ old_prop = getattr(cls, base)
+ if not isinstance(old_prop, property):
+ raise ValueError(
+ "Attribute %s is a %s, not a property; function %s is named like a property"
+ % (base, type(old_prop), name))
+ attrs = {'fget': old_prop.fget,
+ 'fset': old_prop.fset,
+ 'fdel': old_prop.fdel,
+ 'doc': old_prop.__doc__}
+ else:
+ attrs = {}
+ attrs['f' + name[-3:]] = value
+ if name.endswith('__get') and value.__doc__:
+ attrs['doc'] = value.__doc__
+ new_prop = property(**attrs)
+ setattr(cls, base, new_prop)