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+"""This module contains single class, to store a sorted dict."""
+# Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+#
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+# terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+# and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+
+__author__ = "Vratko Polak"
+__copyright__ = "Copyright(c) 2015, Cisco Systems, Inc."
+__license__ = "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+__email__ = "vrpolak@cisco.com"
+
+import collections as _collections
+
+
+class Hsfod(_collections.OrderedDict):
+ """
+ Hashable sorted (by key) frozen OrderedDict implementation stub.
+
+ Supports only __init__, __repr__ and __hash__ methods.
+ Other OrderedDict methods are available, but they may break contract.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+ """Put arguments to OrderedDict, sort, pass to super, cache values."""
+ self_unsorted = _collections.OrderedDict(*args, **kwargs)
+ items_sorted = sorted(self_unsorted.items(), key=repr)
+ sup = super(Hsfod, self) # possibly something else than OrderedDict
+ sup.__init__(items_sorted)
+ # Repr string is used for sorting, keys are more important than values.
+ self.__repr = '{' + repr(self.keys()) + ':' + repr(self.values()) + '}'
+ self.__hash = hash(self.__repr)
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ """Return cached repr string."""
+ return self.__repr
+
+ def __hash__(self):
+ """Return cached hash."""
+ return self.__hash