diff -r 000000000000 -r ae805ac0140d python-2.5.2/win32/Lib/functools.py
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+"""functools.py - Tools for working with functions and callable objects
+"""
+# Python module wrapper for _functools C module
+# to allow utilities written in Python to be added
+# to the functools module.
+# Written by Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
+#   Copyright (C) 2006 Python Software Foundation.
+# See C source code for _functools credits/copyright
+
+from _functools import partial
+
+# update_wrapper() and wraps() are tools to help write
+# wrapper functions that can handle naive introspection
+
+WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS = ('__module__', '__name__', '__doc__')
+WRAPPER_UPDATES = ('__dict__',)
+def update_wrapper(wrapper,
+                   wrapped,
+                   assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS,
+                   updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES):
+    """Update a wrapper function to look like the wrapped function
+
+       wrapper is the function to be updated
+       wrapped is the original function
+       assigned is a tuple naming the attributes assigned directly
+       from the wrapped function to the wrapper function (defaults to
+       functools.WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS)
+       updated is a tuple naming the attributes off the wrapper that
+       are updated with the corresponding attribute from the wrapped
+       function (defaults to functools.WRAPPER_UPDATES)
+    """
+    for attr in assigned:
+        setattr(wrapper, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr))
+    for attr in updated:
+        getattr(wrapper, attr).update(getattr(wrapped, attr, {}))
+    # Return the wrapper so this can be used as a decorator via partial()
+    return wrapper
+
+def wraps(wrapped,
+          assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS,
+          updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES):
+    """Decorator factory to apply update_wrapper() to a wrapper function
+
+       Returns a decorator that invokes update_wrapper() with the decorated
+       function as the wrapper argument and the arguments to wraps() as the
+       remaining arguments. Default arguments are as for update_wrapper().
+       This is a convenience function to simplify applying partial() to
+       update_wrapper().
+    """
+    return partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped,
+                   assigned=assigned, updated=updated)