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# Copyright (C) 2009 Google Inc.
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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# General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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# 02110-1301, USA.
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import imp
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import os
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def LoadModule(filename):
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  """Loads an external module by filename.
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  Use this function with caution. Python will always write the compiled source
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  to a file named "${filename}c".
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  @type filename: string
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  @param filename: Path to module
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  """
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  (name, ext) = os.path.splitext(filename)
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  fh = open(filename, "U")
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  try:
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    return imp.load_module(name, fh, filename, (ext, "U", imp.PY_SOURCE))
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  finally:
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    fh.close()