# Module:   utils
# Date:     11th April 2010
# Author:   James Mills, prologic at shortcircuit dot net dot au

"""Utils

This module defines utilities used by circuits.
"""

import sys

from imp import reload


def flatten(root, visited=None):
    if not visited:
        visited = set()
    yield root
    for component in root.components.copy():
        if component not in visited:
            visited.add(component)
            for child in flatten(component, visited):
                yield child


def findchannel(root, channel, all=False):
    components = [x for x in flatten(root)
                  if x.channel == channel]

    if all:
        return components

    if components:
        return components[0]


def findtype(root, component, all=False):
    components = [x for x in flatten(root)
                  if issubclass(type(x), component)]

    if all:
        return components

    if components:
        return components[0]

findcmp = findtype


def findroot(component):
    if component.parent == component:
        return component
    else:
        return findroot(component.parent)


def safeimport(name):
    modules = sys.modules.copy()
    try:
        if name in sys.modules:
            return reload(sys.modules[name])
        else:
            return __import__(name, globals(), locals(), [""])
    except:
        for name in sys.modules.copy():
            if not name in modules:
                del sys.modules[name]