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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Class which mimics a module.
Needed to allow pickle to correctly resolve namespaces during IPython
sessions.
$Id: FakeModule.py 2754 2007-09-09 10:16:59Z fperez $"""
#*****************************************************************************
# Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Fernando Perez. <fperez@colorado.edu>
#
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#*****************************************************************************
import types
class FakeModule(types.ModuleType):
"""Simple class with attribute access to fake a module.
This is not meant to replace a module, but to allow inserting a fake
module in sys.modules so that systems which rely on run-time module
importing (like shelve and pickle) work correctly in interactive IPython
sessions.
Do NOT use this code for anything other than this IPython private hack."""
def __init__(self,adict=None):
# tmp to force __dict__ instance creation, else self.__dict__ fails
self.__iptmp = None
# It seems pydoc (and perhaps others) needs any module instance to
# implement a __nonzero__ method, so we add it if missing:
self.__dict__.setdefault('__nonzero__',lambda : True)
self.__dict__.setdefault('__file__',__file__)
# cleanup our temp trick
del self.__iptmp
if adict is not None:
self.__dict__.update(adict)