#
# Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file was generated by gr_modtool, a tool from the GNU Radio framework
# This file is a part of gr-adsb
#
# GNU Radio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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#
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"""
Utilities for extracting text from generated classes.
"""
from __future__ import unicode_literals

def is_string(txt):
    if isinstance(txt, str):
        return True
    try:
        if isinstance(txt, str):
            return True
    except NameError:
        pass
    return False

def description(obj):
    if obj is None:
        return None
    return description_bit(obj).strip()

def description_bit(obj):
    if hasattr(obj, 'content'):
        contents = [description_bit(item) for item in obj.content]
        result = ''.join(contents)
    elif hasattr(obj, 'content_'):
        contents = [description_bit(item) for item in obj.content_]
        result = ''.join(contents)
    elif hasattr(obj, 'value'):
        result = description_bit(obj.value)
    elif is_string(obj):
        return obj
    else:
        raise Exception('Expecting a string or something with content, content_ or value attribute')
    # If this bit is a paragraph then add one some line breaks.
    if hasattr(obj, 'name') and obj.name == 'para':
        result += "\n\n"
    return result
