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# Copyright (C) 2006-2014 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of GNU Mailman.
#
# GNU Mailman 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 3 of the License, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# GNU Mailman 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
# GNU Mailman.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

"""Provide an interactive prompt, mimicking the Python interpreter."""

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals

__metaclass__ = type
__all__ = [
    'interact',
    ]


import os
import sys
import code

DEFAULT_BANNER = ''



def interact(upframe=True, banner=DEFAULT_BANNER, overrides=None):
    """Start an interactive interpreter prompt.

    :param upframe: Whether or not to populate the interpreter's globals with
        the locals from the frame that called this function.
    :type upfframe: bool
    :param banner: The banner to print before the interpreter starts.
    :type banner: string
    :param overrides: Additional interpreter globals to add.
    :type overrides: dict
    """
    # The interactive prompt's namespace.
    namespace = dict()
    # Populate the console's with the locals of the frame that called this
    # function (i.e. one up from here).
    if upframe:
        frame = sys._getframe(1)
        namespace.update(frame.f_globals)
        namespace.update(frame.f_locals)
    if overrides is not None:
        namespace.update(overrides)
    interp = code.InteractiveConsole(namespace)
    # Try to import the readline module, but don't worry if it's unavailable.
    try:
        import readline
    except ImportError:
        pass
    # Mimic the real interactive interpreter's loading of any $PYTHONSTARTUP
    # file.  Note that if the startup file is not prepared to be exec'd more
    # than once, this could cause a problem.
    startup = os.environ.get('PYTHONSTARTUP')
    if startup:
        try:
            execfile(startup, namespace)
        except:
            pass
    # We don't want the funky console object in parentheses in the banner.
    if banner == DEFAULT_BANNER:
        banner = '''\
Python %s on %s
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.''' % (
            sys.version, sys.platform)
    elif not banner:
        banner = None
    interp.interact(banner)
    # When an exception occurs in the InteractiveConsole, the various
    # sys.exc_* attributes get set so that error handling works the same way
    # there as it does in the built-in interpreter.  Be anal about clearing
    # any exception information before we're done.
    sys.exc_clear()
    sys.last_type = sys.last_value = sys.last_traceback = None