"""Base classes and function for readers and writers.

Authors:

* Brian Granger
"""

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#  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
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#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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# Imports
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from base64 import encodestring, decodestring

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class NotebookReader(object):

    def reads(self, s, **kwargs):
        """Read a notebook from a string."""
        raise NotImplementedError("loads must be implemented in a subclass")

    def read(self, fp, **kwargs):
        """Read a notebook from a file like object"""
        return self.reads(fp.read(), **kwargs)


class NotebookWriter(object):

    def writes(self, nb, **kwargs):
        """Write a notebook to a string."""
        raise NotImplementedError("loads must be implemented in a subclass")

    def write(self, nb, fp, **kwargs):
        """Write a notebook to a file like object"""
        return fp.write(self.writes(nb,**kwargs))



