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+"""
+helper for importing pdf structures into a ReportLab generated document
+"""
+from reportlab.pdfbase.pdfdoc import format
+
+import string
+
+class PDFPattern:
+    __RefOnly__ = 1
+    def __init__(self, pattern_sequence, **keywordargs):
+        """
+        Description of a kind of PDF object using a pattern.
+
+        Pattern sequence should contain strings or singletons of form [string].
+        Strings are literal strings to be used in the object.
+        Singletons are names of keyword arguments to include.
+        Keyword arguments can be non-instances which are substituted directly in string conversion,
+        or they can be object instances in which case they should be pdfdoc.* style
+        objects with a x.format(doc) method.
+        Keyword arguments may be set on initialization or subsequently using __setitem__, before format.
+        "constant object" instances can also be inserted in the patterns.
+        """
+        self.pattern = pattern_sequence
+        self.arguments = keywordargs
+        from types import StringType, InstanceType
+        toptypes = (StringType, InstanceType)
+        for x in pattern_sequence:
+            if type(x) not in toptypes:
+                if len(x)!=1:
+                    raise ValueError, "sequence elts must be strings or singletons containing strings: "+repr(x)
+                if type(x[0]) is not StringType:
+                    raise ValueError, "Singletons must contain strings or instances only: "+repr(x[0])
+    def __setitem__(self, item, value):
+        self.arguments[item] = value
+    def __getitem__(self, item):
+        return self.arguments[item]
+    def format(self, document):
+        L = []
+        arguments = self.arguments
+        from types import StringType, InstanceType
+        for x in self.pattern:
+            tx = type(x)
+            if tx is StringType:
+                L.append(x)
+            elif tx is InstanceType:
+                L.append( x.format(document) )
+            else:
+                name = x[0]
+                value = arguments.get(name, None)
+                if value is None:
+                    raise ValueError, "%s value not defined" % repr(name)
+                if type(value) is InstanceType:
+                    #L.append( value.format(document) )
+                    L.append(format(value, document))
+                else:
+                    L.append( str(value) )
+        return string.join(L, "")
+
+