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+# backport of broken code for python 3.11 on webhelpers2
+
+import collections
+from webhelpers2.misc import NotGiven
+from webhelpers2.html.tags import _set_id_attr, NL, _OptionsList, OptGroup, HTML
+
+
+class Options(_OptionsList):
+    """A list of options and/or optgroups for a select or datalist.
+
+    I'm a subclass of ``list``. My elements are ``Option`` and/or ``OptGroup``
+    instances. Do not add other element types or they may cause
+    ``options.render`` or ``str(options)`` to fail.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, options=None, prompt=None):
+        """Construct an ``Options`` instance.
+
+        **options**: An iterable of ``Option`` instances, ``OptGroup``
+        instances and/or strings. If you pass strings, they will be converted
+        to simple ``Option`` instances (i.e., the label will be the string, and
+        the value will be ``None``).
+
+        **prompt**: If passed, this will be turned into an extra option before
+        the others. The string argument will become the option's label, and
+        the option's value will be the empty string.
+        """
+        if prompt:
+            self.add_option(prompt, "")
+        if options:
+            self._parse_options(options)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        classname = self.__class__.__name__
+        return "{0}({1!r})".format(classname, list(self))
+
+    def add_optgroup(self, label, options=None):
+        """Create an ``OptGroup``, append it, and return it.
+
+        The return value is the ``OptGroup`` instance. Call its
+        ``.add_option`` method to add options to the group.
+        """
+        group = OptGroup(label, options)
+        self.append(group)
+        return group
+
+    def render(self, selected_values=None):
+        """
+        Render the options as a concatenated literal of <option> and/or
+        <optgroup> tags, with a newline after each.
+
+        **selected_values**: The value(s) that should be preselected. You
+        can pass a string, int, bool, or other scalar type, or a sequence of
+        these. If you pass a scalar it will be standardized to a one-element
+        tuple. If you don't pass anything, it will default to ``("",)`` (a tuple
+        containing the empty string); this will correctly preselect prompts.
+
+        Note that ``selected_values`` *does not do type conversions*. If you
+        pass an int, the corresponding ``Option.value`` must also be an int or
+        otherwise equal to it. (The actual comparision operator is ``in``.)
+
+        Calling ``str(options)`` or ``options.__html__()`` is the same as
+        calling ``options.render()`` without arguments. This is only useful if
+        you don't want to pass any selected values.
+        """
+
+        selected_values = self._parse_selected_values(selected_values)
+        return self._render(self, selected_values)
+
+    __str__ = __html__ = render
+
+    def _render(self, options, selected_values):
+        tags = []
+        for opt in options:
+            if isinstance(opt, OptGroup):
+                content = self._render(opt, selected_values)
+                tag = HTML.tag("optgroup", NL, content, label=opt.label)
+                tags.append(tag)
+            else:
+                value = opt.value if opt.value is not None else opt.label
+                selected = value in selected_values
+                tag = HTML.tag("option", opt.label, value=opt.value, selected=selected)
+                tags.append(tag)
+        return HTML(*tags, nl=True)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _parse_selected_values(values):
+        if values is None:
+            return ("",)
+        is_string = isinstance(values, str)
+        is_seq = isinstance(values, collections.abc.Sequence)
+        if is_string or not is_seq:
+            return (values,)
+        else:
+            return values
+
+
+def raw_select(name, selected_values, options, id=NotGiven, **attrs):
+    """Create a dropdown selection box.
+
+    Arguments:
+
+    * **name**: the name of this control.
+
+    * **selected_values**: the value(s) that should be preselected.
+      A string or list of strings. Some other types are allowed; see the
+      ``Options.render`` method for details.
+
+    * **options**: an ``Options`` instance, or an iterable to pass to the
+      its constructor. See the ``Options`` class for allowed element types.
+
+    * **id**: the HTML ID attribute. This should be a keyword argument if
+      passed.  By default the ID is the same as the name.  filtered through
+      ``_make_safe_id_component()``.  Pass None to suppress the
+      ID attribute entirely.
+
+    The following options may only be keyword arguments:
+
+    * **multiple**: if true, this control will allow multiple
+      selections.
+
+    * **prompt**: An extra option that will be prepended to the list.
+      The argument is the option label; e.g., "Please choose ...". The generated
+      option's value will be the empty string (""), which is equivalent to not
+      making a selection. If you specify this and also pass an ``Options``
+      instance in ``options``, it will combine the two into a new ``Options``
+      object rather than reusing the existing one.
+
+    Any other keyword args will become HTML attributes for the <select>.
+    """
+
+    _set_id_attr(attrs, id, name)
+    attrs["name"] = name
+    prompt = attrs.pop("prompt", None)
+    if prompt or not isinstance(options, Options):
+        options = Options(options, prompt=prompt)
+    return HTML.tag("select", NL, options.render(selected_values), **attrs)
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