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+# Copyright (C) 2006 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+# USA.
+
+"""Initialize all global state.
+
+Every entrance into the Mailman system, be it by command line, mail program,
+or cgi, must call the initialize function here in order for the system's
+global state to be set up properly.  Typically this is called after command
+line argument parsing, since some of the initialization behavior is controlled
+by the command line arguments.
+"""
+
+import Mailman.configuration
+import Mailman.database
+import Mailman.loginit
+
+
+
+def initialize(config=None, propagate_logs=False):
+    Mailman.configuration.config.load(config)
+    Mailman.loginit.initialize(propagate_logs)
+    Mailman.database.initialize()