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# Natural Language Toolkit: Utility functions
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2017 NLTK Project
# Author: Steven Bird <stevenbird1@gmail.com>
# URL: <http://nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT
from __future__ import print_function

import sys
import inspect
import locale
import re
import types
import textwrap
import pydoc
import bisect
import os

from itertools import islice, chain, combinations
from pprint import pprint
from collections import defaultdict, deque
from sys import version_info

from six import class_types, string_types, text_type
from six.moves.urllib.request import (build_opener, install_opener, getproxies,
                                      ProxyHandler, ProxyBasicAuthHandler,
                                      ProxyDigestAuthHandler,
                                      HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm)

from nltk.internals import slice_bounds, raise_unorderable_types
from nltk.collections import *
from nltk.compat import python_2_unicode_compatible



######################################################################
# Short usage message
######################################################################

def usage(obj, selfname='self'):
    str(obj) # In case it's lazy, this will load it.

    if not isinstance(obj, class_types):
        obj = obj.__class__

    print('%s supports the following operations:' % obj.__name__)
    for (name, method) in sorted(pydoc.allmethods(obj).items()):
        if name.startswith('_'): continue
        if getattr(method, '__deprecated__', False): continue

        if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
            getargspec = inspect.getfullargspec
        else:
            getargspec = inspect.getargspec
        args, varargs, varkw, defaults = getargspec(method)[:4]
        if (args and args[0]=='self' and
            (defaults is None or len(args)>len(defaults))):
            args = args[1:]
            name = '%s.%s' % (selfname, name)
        argspec = inspect.formatargspec(
            args, varargs, varkw, defaults)
        print(textwrap.fill('%s%s' % (name, argspec),
                            initial_indent='  - ',
                            subsequent_indent=' '*(len(name)+5)))

##########################################################################
# IDLE
##########################################################################

def in_idle():
    """
    Return True if this function is run within idle.  Tkinter
    programs that are run in idle should never call ``Tk.mainloop``; so
    this function should be used to gate all calls to ``Tk.mainloop``.

    :warning: This function works by checking ``sys.stdin``.  If the
        user has modified ``sys.stdin``, then it may return incorrect
        results.
    :rtype: bool
    """
    import sys
    return sys.stdin.__class__.__name__ in ('PyShell', 'RPCProxy')

##########################################################################
# PRETTY PRINTING
##########################################################################

def pr(data, start=0, end=None):
    """
    Pretty print a sequence of data items

    :param data: the data stream to print
    :type data: sequence or iter
    :param start: the start position
    :type start: int
    :param end: the end position
    :type end: int
    """
    pprint(list(islice(data, start, end)))

def print_string(s, width=70):
    """
    Pretty print a string, breaking lines on whitespace

    :param s: the string to print, consisting of words and spaces
    :type s: str
    :param width: the display width
    :type width: int
    """
    print('\n'.join(textwrap.wrap(s, width=width)))

def tokenwrap(tokens, separator=" ", width=70):
    """
    Pretty print a list of text tokens, breaking lines on whitespace

    :param tokens: the tokens to print
    :type tokens: list
    :param separator: the string to use to separate tokens
    :type separator: str
    :param width: the display width (default=70)
    :type width: int
    """
    return '\n'.join(textwrap.wrap(separator.join(tokens), width=width))


##########################################################################
# Python version
##########################################################################

def py25():
    return version_info[0] == 2 and version_info[1] == 5
def py26():
    return version_info[0] == 2 and version_info[1] == 6
def py27():
    return version_info[0] == 2 and version_info[1] == 7


##########################################################################
# Indexing
##########################################################################

class Index(defaultdict):

    def __init__(self, pairs):
        defaultdict.__init__(self, list)
        for key, value in pairs:
            self[key].append(value)


######################################################################
## Regexp display (thanks to David Mertz)
######################################################################

def re_show(regexp, string, left="{", right="}"):
    """
    Return a string with markers surrounding the matched substrings.
    Search str for substrings matching ``regexp`` and wrap the matches
    with braces.  This is convenient for learning about regular expressions.

    :param regexp: The regular expression.
    :type regexp: str
    :param string: The string being matched.
    :type string: str
    :param left: The left delimiter (printed before the matched substring)
    :type left: str
    :param right: The right delimiter (printed after the matched substring)
    :type right: str
    :rtype: str
    """
    print(re.compile(regexp, re.M).sub(left + r"\g<0>" + right, string.rstrip()))


##########################################################################
# READ FROM FILE OR STRING
##########################################################################

# recipe from David Mertz
def filestring(f):
    if hasattr(f, 'read'):
        return f.read()
    elif isinstance(f, string_types):
        with open(f, 'r') as infile:
            return infile.read()
    else:
        raise ValueError("Must be called with a filename or file-like object")

##########################################################################
# Breadth-First Search
##########################################################################

def breadth_first(tree, children=iter, maxdepth=-1):
    """Traverse the nodes of a tree in breadth-first order.
    (No need to check for cycles.)
    The first argument should be the tree root;
    children should be a function taking as argument a tree node
    and returning an iterator of the node's children.
    """
    queue = deque([(tree, 0)])

    while queue:
        node, depth = queue.popleft()
        yield node

        if depth != maxdepth:
            try:
                queue.extend((c, depth + 1) for c in children(node))
            except TypeError:
                pass

##########################################################################
# Guess Character Encoding
##########################################################################

# adapted from io.py in the docutils extension module (http://docutils.sourceforge.net)
# http://www.pyzine.com/Issue008/Section_Articles/article_Encodings.html

def guess_encoding(data):
    """
    Given a byte string, attempt to decode it.
    Tries the standard 'UTF8' and 'latin-1' encodings,
    Plus several gathered from locale information.

    The calling program *must* first call::

        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

    If successful it returns ``(decoded_unicode, successful_encoding)``.
    If unsuccessful it raises a ``UnicodeError``.
    """
    successful_encoding = None
    # we make 'utf-8' the first encoding
    encodings = ['utf-8']
    #
    # next we add anything we can learn from the locale
    try:
        encodings.append(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET))
    except AttributeError:
        pass
    try:
        encodings.append(locale.getlocale()[1])
    except (AttributeError, IndexError):
        pass
    try:
        encodings.append(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1])
    except (AttributeError, IndexError):
        pass
    #
    # we try 'latin-1' last
    encodings.append('latin-1')
    for enc in encodings:
        # some of the locale calls
        # may have returned None
        if not enc:
            continue
        try:
            decoded = text_type(data, enc)
            successful_encoding = enc

        except (UnicodeError, LookupError):
            pass
        else:
            break
    if not successful_encoding:
         raise UnicodeError(
        'Unable to decode input data.  Tried the following encodings: %s.'
        % ', '.join([repr(enc) for enc in encodings if enc]))
    else:
         return (decoded, successful_encoding)


##########################################################################
# Remove repeated elements from a list deterministcally
##########################################################################

def unique_list(xs):
    seen = set()
    # not seen.add(x) here acts to make the code shorter without using if statements, seen.add(x) always returns None.
    return [x for x in xs if x not in seen and not seen.add(x)]

##########################################################################
# Invert a dictionary
##########################################################################

def invert_dict(d):
    inverted_dict = defaultdict(list)
    for key in d:
        if hasattr(d[key], '__iter__'):
            for term in d[key]:
                inverted_dict[term].append(key)
        else:
            inverted_dict[d[key]] = key
    return inverted_dict


##########################################################################
# Utilities for directed graphs: transitive closure, and inversion
# The graph is represented as a dictionary of sets
##########################################################################

def transitive_closure(graph, reflexive=False):
    """
    Calculate the transitive closure of a directed graph,
    optionally the reflexive transitive closure.

    The algorithm is a slight modification of the "Marking Algorithm" of
    Ioannidis & Ramakrishnan (1998) "Efficient Transitive Closure Algorithms".

    :param graph: the initial graph, represented as a dictionary of sets
    :type graph: dict(set)
    :param reflexive: if set, also make the closure reflexive
    :type reflexive: bool
    :rtype: dict(set)
    """
    if reflexive:
        base_set = lambda k: set([k])
    else:
        base_set = lambda k: set()
    # The graph U_i in the article:
    agenda_graph = dict((k, graph[k].copy()) for k in graph)
    # The graph M_i in the article:
    closure_graph = dict((k, base_set(k)) for k in graph)
    for i in graph:
        agenda = agenda_graph[i]
        closure = closure_graph[i]
        while agenda:
            j = agenda.pop()
            closure.add(j)
            closure |= closure_graph.setdefault(j, base_set(j))
            agenda |= agenda_graph.get(j, base_set(j))
            agenda -= closure
    return closure_graph


def invert_graph(graph):
    """
    Inverts a directed graph.

    :param graph: the graph, represented as a dictionary of sets
    :type graph: dict(set)
    :return: the inverted graph
    :rtype: dict(set)
    """
    inverted = {}
    for key in graph:
        for value in graph[key]:
            inverted.setdefault(value, set()).add(key)
    return inverted



##########################################################################
# HTML Cleaning
##########################################################################

def clean_html(html):
    raise NotImplementedError ("To remove HTML markup, use BeautifulSoup's get_text() function")

def clean_url(url):
    raise NotImplementedError ("To remove HTML markup, use BeautifulSoup's get_text() function")

##########################################################################
# FLATTEN LISTS
##########################################################################

def flatten(*args):
    """
    Flatten a list.

        >>> from nltk.util import flatten
        >>> flatten(1, 2, ['b', 'a' , ['c', 'd']], 3)
        [1, 2, 'b', 'a', 'c', 'd', 3]

    :param args: items and lists to be combined into a single list
    :rtype: list
    """

    x = []
    for l in args:
        if not isinstance(l, (list, tuple)): l = [l]
        for item in l:
            if isinstance(item, (list, tuple)):
                x.extend(flatten(item))
            else:
                x.append(item)
    return x

##########################################################################
# Ngram iteration
##########################################################################

def pad_sequence(sequence, n, pad_left=False, pad_right=False,
                 left_pad_symbol=None, right_pad_symbol=None):
    """
    Returns a padded sequence of items before ngram extraction.

        >>> list(pad_sequence([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_left=True, pad_right=True, left_pad_symbol='<s>', right_pad_symbol='</s>'))
        ['<s>', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, '</s>']
        >>> list(pad_sequence([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_left=True, left_pad_symbol='<s>'))
        ['<s>', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
        >>> list(pad_sequence([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_right=True, right_pad_symbol='</s>'))
        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, '</s>']

    :param sequence: the source data to be padded
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :param n: the degree of the ngrams
    :type n: int
    :param pad_left: whether the ngrams should be left-padded
    :type pad_left: bool
    :param pad_right: whether the ngrams should be right-padded
    :type pad_right: bool
    :param left_pad_symbol: the symbol to use for left padding (default is None)
    :type left_pad_symbol: any
    :param right_pad_symbol: the symbol to use for right padding (default is None)
    :type right_pad_symbol: any
    :rtype: sequence or iter
    """
    sequence = iter(sequence)
    if pad_left:
        sequence = chain((left_pad_symbol,) * (n-1), sequence)
    if pad_right:
        sequence = chain(sequence, (right_pad_symbol,) * (n-1))
    return sequence

# add a flag to pad the sequence so we get peripheral ngrams?

def ngrams(sequence, n, pad_left=False, pad_right=False,
           left_pad_symbol=None, right_pad_symbol=None):
    """
    Return the ngrams generated from a sequence of items, as an iterator.
    For example:

        >>> from nltk.util import ngrams
        >>> list(ngrams([1,2,3,4,5], 3))
        [(1, 2, 3), (2, 3, 4), (3, 4, 5)]

    Wrap with list for a list version of this function.  Set pad_left
    or pad_right to true in order to get additional ngrams:

        >>> list(ngrams([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_right=True))
        [(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, None)]
        >>> list(ngrams([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_right=True, right_pad_symbol='</s>'))
        [(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, '</s>')]
        >>> list(ngrams([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_left=True, left_pad_symbol='<s>'))
        [('<s>', 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5)]
        >>> list(ngrams([1,2,3,4,5], 2, pad_left=True, pad_right=True, left_pad_symbol='<s>', right_pad_symbol='</s>'))
        [('<s>', 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, '</s>')]


    :param sequence: the source data to be converted into ngrams
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :param n: the degree of the ngrams
    :type n: int
    :param pad_left: whether the ngrams should be left-padded
    :type pad_left: bool
    :param pad_right: whether the ngrams should be right-padded
    :type pad_right: bool
    :param left_pad_symbol: the symbol to use for left padding (default is None)
    :type left_pad_symbol: any
    :param right_pad_symbol: the symbol to use for right padding (default is None)
    :type right_pad_symbol: any
    :rtype: sequence or iter
    """
    sequence = pad_sequence(sequence, n, pad_left, pad_right,
                            left_pad_symbol, right_pad_symbol)

    history = []
    while n > 1:
        history.append(next(sequence))
        n -= 1
    for item in sequence:
        history.append(item)
        yield tuple(history)
        del history[0]

def bigrams(sequence, **kwargs):
    """
    Return the bigrams generated from a sequence of items, as an iterator.
    For example:

        >>> from nltk.util import bigrams
        >>> list(bigrams([1,2,3,4,5]))
        [(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5)]

    Use bigrams for a list version of this function.

    :param sequence: the source data to be converted into bigrams
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :rtype: iter(tuple)
    """

    for item in ngrams(sequence, 2, **kwargs):
        yield item

def trigrams(sequence, **kwargs):
    """
    Return the trigrams generated from a sequence of items, as an iterator.
    For example:

        >>> from nltk.util import trigrams
        >>> list(trigrams([1,2,3,4,5]))
        [(1, 2, 3), (2, 3, 4), (3, 4, 5)]

    Use trigrams for a list version of this function.

    :param sequence: the source data to be converted into trigrams
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :rtype: iter(tuple)
    """

    for item in ngrams(sequence, 3, **kwargs):
        yield item

def everygrams(sequence, min_len=1, max_len=-1, **kwargs):
    """
    Returns all possible ngrams generated from a sequence of items, as an iterator.

        >>> sent = 'a b c'.split()
        >>> list(everygrams(sent))
        [('a',), ('b',), ('c',), ('a', 'b'), ('b', 'c'), ('a', 'b', 'c')]
        >>> list(everygrams(sent, max_len=2))
        [('a',), ('b',), ('c',), ('a', 'b'), ('b', 'c')]

    :param sequence: the source data to be converted into trigrams
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :param min_len: minimum length of the ngrams, aka. n-gram order/degree of ngram
    :type  min_len: int
    :param max_len: maximum length of the ngrams (set to length of sequence by default)
    :type  max_len: int
    :rtype: iter(tuple)
    """

    if max_len == -1:
        max_len = len(sequence)
    for n in range(min_len, max_len+1):
        for ng in ngrams(sequence, n, **kwargs):
            yield ng

def skipgrams(sequence, n, k, **kwargs):
    """
    Returns all possible skipgrams generated from a sequence of items, as an iterator.
    Skipgrams are ngrams that allows tokens to be skipped.
    Refer to http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ballison/pdf/lrec_skipgrams.pdf

        >>> sent = "Insurgents killed in ongoing fighting".split()
        >>> list(skipgrams(sent, 2, 2))
        [('Insurgents', 'killed'), ('Insurgents', 'in'), ('Insurgents', 'ongoing'), ('killed', 'in'), ('killed', 'ongoing'), ('killed', 'fighting'), ('in', 'ongoing'), ('in', 'fighting'), ('ongoing', 'fighting')]
        >>> list(skipgrams(sent, 3, 2))
        [('Insurgents', 'killed', 'in'), ('Insurgents', 'killed', 'ongoing'), ('Insurgents', 'killed', 'fighting'), ('Insurgents', 'in', 'ongoing'), ('Insurgents', 'in', 'fighting'), ('Insurgents', 'ongoing', 'fighting'), ('killed', 'in', 'ongoing'), ('killed', 'in', 'fighting'), ('killed', 'ongoing', 'fighting'), ('in', 'ongoing', 'fighting')]

    :param sequence: the source data to be converted into trigrams
    :type sequence: sequence or iter
    :param n: the degree of the ngrams
    :type n: int
    :param k: the skip distance
    :type  k: int
    :rtype: iter(tuple)
    """

    # Pads the sequence as desired by **kwargs.
    if 'pad_left' in kwargs or 'pad_right' in kwargs:
        sequence = pad_sequence(sequence, n, **kwargs)

    # Note when iterating through the ngrams, the pad_right here is not
    # the **kwargs padding, it's for the algorithm to detect the SENTINEL
    # object on the right pad to stop inner loop.
    SENTINEL = object()
    for ngram in ngrams(sequence, n + k, pad_right=True, right_pad_symbol=SENTINEL):
        head = ngram[:1]
        tail = ngram[1:]
        for skip_tail in combinations(tail, n - 1):
            if skip_tail[-1] is SENTINEL:
                continue
            yield head + skip_tail

######################################################################
# Binary Search in a File
######################################################################

# inherited from pywordnet, by Oliver Steele
def binary_search_file(file, key, cache={}, cacheDepth=-1):
    """
    Return the line from the file with first word key.
    Searches through a sorted file using the binary search algorithm.

    :type file: file
    :param file: the file to be searched through.
    :type key: str
    :param key: the identifier we are searching for.
    """

    key = key + ' '
    keylen = len(key)
    start = 0
    currentDepth = 0

    if hasattr(file, 'name'):
        end = os.stat(file.name).st_size - 1
    else:
        file.seek(0, 2)
        end = file.tell() - 1
        file.seek(0)

    while start < end:
        lastState = start, end
        middle = (start + end) // 2

        if cache.get(middle):
            offset, line = cache[middle]

        else:
            line = ""
            while True:
                file.seek(max(0, middle - 1))
                if middle > 0:
                    file.readline()
                offset = file.tell()
                line = file.readline()
                if line != "": break
                # at EOF; try to find start of the last line
                middle = (start + middle)//2
                if middle == end -1:
                    return None
            if currentDepth < cacheDepth:
                cache[middle] = (offset, line)

        if offset > end:
            assert end != middle - 1, "infinite loop"
            end = middle - 1
        elif line[:keylen] == key:
            return line
        elif line > key:
            assert end != middle - 1, "infinite loop"
            end = middle - 1
        elif line < key:
            start = offset + len(line) - 1

        currentDepth += 1
        thisState = start, end

        if lastState == thisState:
            # Detects the condition where we're searching past the end
            # of the file, which is otherwise difficult to detect
            return None

    return None

######################################################################
# Proxy configuration
######################################################################

def set_proxy(proxy, user=None, password=''):
    """
    Set the HTTP proxy for Python to download through.

    If ``proxy`` is None then tries to set proxy from environment or system
    settings.

    :param proxy: The HTTP proxy server to use. For example:
        'http://proxy.example.com:3128/'
    :param user: The username to authenticate with. Use None to disable
        authentication.
    :param password: The password to authenticate with.
    """
    from nltk import compat

    if proxy is None:
        # Try and find the system proxy settings
        try:
            proxy = getproxies()['http']
        except KeyError:
            raise ValueError('Could not detect default proxy settings')

    # Set up the proxy handler
    proxy_handler = ProxyHandler({'https': proxy, 'http': proxy})
    opener = build_opener(proxy_handler)

    if user is not None:
        # Set up basic proxy authentication if provided
        password_manager = HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
        password_manager.add_password(realm=None, uri=proxy, user=user,
                passwd=password)
        opener.add_handler(ProxyBasicAuthHandler(password_manager))
        opener.add_handler(ProxyDigestAuthHandler(password_manager))

    # Overide the existing url opener
    install_opener(opener)


######################################################################
# ElementTree pretty printing from http://www.effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm
######################################################################


def elementtree_indent(elem, level=0):
    """
    Recursive function to indent an ElementTree._ElementInterface
    used for pretty printing. Run indent on elem and then output
    in the normal way.

    :param elem: element to be indented. will be modified.
    :type elem: ElementTree._ElementInterface
    :param level: level of indentation for this element
    :type level: nonnegative integer
    :rtype:   ElementTree._ElementInterface
    :return:  Contents of elem indented to reflect its structure
    """

    i = "\n" + level*"  "
    if len(elem):
        if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
            elem.text = i + "  "
        for elem in elem:
            elementtree_indent(elem, level+1)
        if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
            elem.tail = i
    else:
        if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
            elem.tail = i

######################################################################
# Mathematical approximations
######################################################################

def choose(n, k):
    """
    This function is a fast way to calculate binomial coefficients, commonly
    known as nCk, i.e. the number of combinations of n things taken k at a time.
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient).

    This is the *scipy.special.comb()* with long integer computation but this
    approximation is faster, see https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/1181

        >>> choose(4, 2)
        6
        >>> choose(6, 2)
        15

    :param n: The number of things.
    :type n: int
    :param r: The number of times a thing is taken.
    :type r: int
    """
    if 0 <= k <= n:
        ntok, ktok = 1, 1
        for t in range(1, min(k, n - k) + 1):
            ntok *= n
            ktok *= t
            n -= 1
        return ntok // ktok
    else:
        return 0