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+"""some pylint test utilities
+"""
+from glob import glob
+from os.path import join, abspath, dirname, basename
+from cStringIO import StringIO
+
+from pylint.interfaces import IReporter
+from pylint.reporters import BaseReporter
+
+PREFIX = abspath(dirname(__file__))
+
+def fix_path():
+    import sys
+    sys.path.insert(0, PREFIX)
+    
+def get_tests_info(prefix=None, suffix=None):
+    pattern = '*'
+    if prefix:
+        pattern = prefix + pattern
+    if suffix:
+        pattern = pattern + suffix
+    result = []
+    for file in glob(join(PREFIX, "input", pattern)):
+        infile = basename(file)
+        outfile = join(PREFIX, "messages", infile.replace(suffix, '.txt'))
+        result.append((infile, outfile))
+        
+    return result
+
+
+TITLE_UNDERLINES = ['', '=', '-', '.']
+
+class TestReporter(BaseReporter):
+    """ store plain text messages 
+    """
+    
+    __implements____ = IReporter
+    
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.message_ids = {}
+        self.reset()
+        
+    def reset(self):
+        self.out = StringIO()
+        self.messages = []
+        
+    def add_message(self, msg_id, location, msg):
+        """manage message of different type and in the context of path """
+        fpath, module, object, line = location
+        self.message_ids[msg_id] = 1
+        if object:
+            object = ':%s' % object
+        sigle = msg_id[0]
+        self.messages.append('%s:%3s%s: %s' % (sigle, line, object, msg))
+
+    def finalize(self):
+        self.messages.sort()
+        for msg in self.messages:
+            print >>self.out, msg
+        result = self.out.getvalue()
+        self.reset()
+        return result
+    
+    def display_results(self, layout):
+        """ignore layouts"""
+