"""
To ensure compatibility from Python ``2.6`` - ``3.3``, a module has been
created. Clearly there is huge need to use conforming syntax.
"""
import sys
import platform

# Cannot use sys.version.major and minor names, because in Python 2.6 it's not
# a namedtuple.
py_version = int(str(sys.version_info[0]) + str(sys.version_info[1]))

# unicode function
try:
    unicode = unicode
except NameError:
    unicode = str

is_pypy = platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy'


def use_metaclass(meta, *bases):
    """ Create a class with a metaclass. """
    if not bases:
        bases = (object,)
    return meta("HackClass", bases, {})


try:
    encoding = sys.stdout.encoding
    if encoding is None:
        encoding = 'utf-8'
except AttributeError:
    encoding = 'ascii'


def u(string):
    """Cast to unicode DAMMIT!
    Written because Python2 repr always implicitly casts to a string, so we
    have to cast back to a unicode (and we know that we always deal with valid
    unicode, because we check that in the beginning).
    """
    if py_version >= 30:
        return str(string)

    if not isinstance(string, unicode):
        return unicode(str(string), 'UTF-8')
    return string


try:
    FileNotFoundError = FileNotFoundError
except NameError:
    FileNotFoundError = IOError


def utf8_repr(func):
    """
    ``__repr__`` methods in Python 2 don't allow unicode objects to be
    returned. Therefore cast them to utf-8 bytes in this decorator.
    """
    def wrapper(self):
        result = func(self)
        if isinstance(result, unicode):
            return result.encode('utf-8')
        else:
            return result

    if py_version >= 30:
        return func
    else:
        return wrapper


try:
    from functools import total_ordering
except ImportError:
    # Python 2.6
    def total_ordering(cls):
        """Class decorator that fills in missing ordering methods"""
        convert = {
            '__lt__': [('__gt__', lambda self, other: not (self < other or self == other)),
                       ('__le__', lambda self, other: self < other or self == other),
                       ('__ge__', lambda self, other: not self < other)],
            '__le__': [('__ge__', lambda self, other: not self <= other or self == other),
                       ('__lt__', lambda self, other: self <= other and not self == other),
                       ('__gt__', lambda self, other: not self <= other)],
            '__gt__': [('__lt__', lambda self, other: not (self > other or self == other)),
                       ('__ge__', lambda self, other: self > other or self == other),
                       ('__le__', lambda self, other: not self > other)],
            '__ge__': [('__le__', lambda self, other: (not self >= other) or self == other),
                       ('__gt__', lambda self, other: self >= other and not self == other),
                       ('__lt__', lambda self, other: not self >= other)]
        }
        roots = set(dir(cls)) & set(convert)
        if not roots:
            raise ValueError('must define at least one ordering operation: < > <= >=')
        root = max(roots)       # prefer __lt__ to __le__ to __gt__ to __ge__
        for opname, opfunc in convert[root]:
            if opname not in roots:
                opfunc.__name__ = opname
                opfunc.__doc__ = getattr(int, opname).__doc__
                setattr(cls, opname, opfunc)
        return cls