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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 classinstancemethod(object):
+    """
+    Acts like a class method when called from a class, like an
+    instance method when called by an instance.  The method should
+    take two arguments, 'self' and 'cls'; one of these will be None
+    depending on how the method was called.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, func):
+        self.func = func
+        self.__doc__ = func.__doc__
+
+    def __get__(self, obj, type=None):
+        return _methodwrapper(self.func, obj=obj, type=type)
+
+class _methodwrapper(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, func, obj, type):
+        self.func = func
+        self.obj = obj
+        self.type = type
+
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
+        assert not kw.has_key('self') and not kw.has_key('cls'), (
+            "You cannot use 'self' or 'cls' arguments to a "
+            "classinstancemethod")
+        return self.func(*((self.obj, self.type) + args), **kw)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        if self.obj is None:
+            return ('<bound class method %s.%s>'
+                    % (self.type.__name__, self.func.func_name))
+        else:
+            return ('<bound method %s.%s of %r>'
+                    % (self.type.__name__, self.func.func_name, self.obj))