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"""Compute a resolution order for an object and its bases

$Id: ro.py 110536 2010-04-06 02:59:44Z tseaver $
"""
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'


def ro(object):
    """Compute a "resolution order" for an object
    """
    return mergeOrderings([_flatten(object)])

def mergeOrderings(orderings, seen=None):
    """Merge multiple orderings so that within-ordering order is preserved

    Orderings are constrained in such a way that if an object appears
    in two or more orderings, then the suffix that begins with the
    object must be in both orderings.

    For example:

    >>> _mergeOrderings([
    ... ['x', 'y', 'z'],
    ... ['q', 'z'],
    ... [1, 3, 5],
    ... ['z']
    ... ])
    ['x', 'y', 'q', 1, 3, 5, 'z']

    """

    if seen is None:
        seen = {}
    result = []
    orderings.reverse()
    for ordering in orderings:
        ordering = list(ordering)
        ordering.reverse()
        for o in ordering:
            if o not in seen:
                seen[o] = 1
                result.append(o)

    result.reverse()
    return result

def _flatten(ob):
    result = [ob]
    i = 0
    for ob in iter(result):
        i += 1
        # The recursive calls can be avoided by inserting the base classes
        # into the dynamically growing list directly after the currently
        # considered object;  the iterator makes sure this will keep working
        # in the future, since it cannot rely on the length of the list
        # by definition.
        result[i:i] = ob.__bases__
    return result