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+"""Shared utility functions."""
+
+import sys
+from traceback import format_exception
+
+
+def format_exc_skip(skip, limit=None):
+ """Like traceback.format_exc but allow skipping the first frames."""
+ etype, val, tb = sys.exc_info()
+ for i in range(skip):
+ tb = tb.tb_next
+ return (''.join(format_exception(etype, val, tb, limit))).rstrip()
+
+
+# Taken from SimpleNamespace in python 3
+class Version:
+ """Helper class for version info."""
+
+ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+ """Create the Version object."""
+ self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ """Return str representation of the Version."""
+ keys = sorted(self.__dict__)
+ items = ("{}={!r}".format(k, self.__dict__[k]) for k in keys)
+ return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, ", ".join(items))
+
+ def __eq__(self, other):
+ """Check if version is same as other."""
+ return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+
+
+def get_client_info(kind, type_, method_spec):
+ """Returns a tuple describing the client."""
+ name = "python{}-{}".format(sys.version_info[0], kind)
+ attributes = {"license": "Apache v2",
+ "website": "github.com/neovim/pynvim"}
+ return (name, VERSION.__dict__, type_, method_spec, attributes)
+
+
+VERSION = Version(major=0, minor=4, patch=2, prerelease='')