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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+Format management.
+
+
+Creating new formats
+--------------------
+
+A new format named 'foo-bar' corresponds to Python module
+'tracetool/format/foo_bar.py'.
+
+A format module should provide a docstring, whose first non-empty line will be
+considered its short description.
+
+All formats must generate their contents through the 'tracetool.out' routine.
+
+
+Format functions
+----------------
+
+======== ==================================================================
+Function Description
+======== ==================================================================
+generate Called to generate a format-specific file.
+======== ==================================================================
+
+"""
+
+__author__     = "Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>"
+__copyright__  = "Copyright 2012-2014, Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>"
+__license__    = "GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version"
+
+__maintainer__ = "Stefan Hajnoczi"
+__email__      = "stefanha@redhat.com"
+
+
+import os
+
+import tracetool
+
+
+def get_list():
+    """Get a list of (name, description) pairs."""
+    res = []
+    modnames = []
+    for filename in os.listdir(tracetool.format.__path__[0]):
+        if filename.endswith('.py') and filename != '__init__.py':
+            modnames.append(filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0])
+    for modname in sorted(modnames):
+        module = tracetool.try_import("tracetool.format." + modname)
+
+        # just in case; should never fail unless non-module files are put there
+        if not module[0]:
+            continue
+        module = module[1]
+
+        doc = module.__doc__
+        if doc is None:
+            doc = ""
+        doc = doc.strip().split("\n")[0]
+
+        name = modname.replace("_", "-")
+        res.append((name, doc))
+    return res
+
+
+def exists(name):
+    """Return whether the given format exists."""
+    if len(name) == 0:
+        return False
+    name = name.replace("-", "_")
+    return tracetool.try_import("tracetool.format." + name)[1]
+
+
+def generate(events, format, backend, group):
+    if not exists(format):
+        raise ValueError("unknown format: %s" % format)
+    format = format.replace("-", "_")
+    func = tracetool.try_import("tracetool.format." + format,
+                                "generate")[1]
+    if func is None:
+        raise AttributeError("format has no 'generate': %s" % format)
+    func(events, backend, group)