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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright: Damien Elmes <anki@ichi2.net>
+# License: GNU GPL, version 3 or later; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+
+"""\
+Hooks - hook management and tools for extending Anki
+==============================================================================
+
+To find available hooks, grep for runHook in the source code.
+
+Instrumenting allows you to modify functions that don't have hooks available.
+If you call wrap() with pos='around', the original function will not be called
+automatically but can be called with _old().
+"""
+
+# Hooks
+##############################################################################
+
+_hooks = {}
+
+def runHook(hook, *args):
+    "Run all functions on hook."
+    hook = _hooks.get(hook, None)
+    if hook:
+        for func in hook:
+            func(*args)
+
+def addHook(hook, func):
+    "Add a function to hook. Ignore if already on hook."
+    if not _hooks.get(hook, None):
+        _hooks[hook] = []
+    if func not in _hooks[hook]:
+        _hooks[hook].append(func)
+
+def removeHook(hook, func):
+    "Remove a function if is on hook."
+    hook = _hooks.get(hook, [])
+    if func in hook:
+        hook.remove(func)
+
+# Instrumenting
+##############################################################################
+
+def wrap(old, new, pos="after"):
+    "Override an existing function."
+    def repl(*args, **kwargs):
+        if pos == "after":
+            old(*args, **kwargs)
+            new(*args, **kwargs)
+        elif pos == "before":
+            new(*args, **kwargs)
+            old(*args, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            new(_old=old, *args, **kwargs)
+    return repl