@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ in our codebase.
 
 import numbers
 
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+###################################################################################
 class MovingAverage(object):
   """Helper class for computing moving average and sliding window"""
 
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"""
utils.py are a collection of methods that can be reused by different classes
in our codebase.
"""

import numbers


class MovingAverage(object):
  """Helper class for computing moving average and sliding window"""


  def __init__(self, windowSize, existingHistoricalValues=None):
    """
    new instance of MovingAverage, so method .next() can be used
    @param windowSize - length of sliding window
    @param existingHistoricalValues - construct the object with already
        some values in it.
    """
    if not isinstance(windowSize, numbers.Integral):
      raise TypeError("MovingAverage - windowSize must be integer type")
    if  windowSize <= 0:
      raise ValueError("MovingAverage - windowSize must be >0")

    self.windowSize = windowSize
    if existingHistoricalValues is not None:
      self.slidingWindow = existingHistoricalValues[
                              len(existingHistoricalValues)-windowSize:]
    else:
      self.slidingWindow = []
    self.total = float(sum(self.slidingWindow))


  @staticmethod
  def compute(slidingWindow, total, newVal, windowSize):
    """Routine for computing a moving average.

    @param slidingWindow a list of previous values to use in computation that
        will be modified and returned
    @param total the sum of the values in slidingWindow to be used in the
        calculation of the moving average
    @param newVal a new number compute the new windowed average
    @param windowSize how many values to use in the moving window

    @returns an updated windowed average, the modified input slidingWindow list,
        and the new total sum of the sliding window
    """
    if len(slidingWindow) == windowSize:
      total -= slidingWindow.pop(0)

    slidingWindow.append(newVal)
    total += newVal
    return float(total) / len(slidingWindow), slidingWindow, total


  def next(self, newValue):
    """Instance method wrapper around compute."""
    newAverage, self.slidingWindow, self.total = self.compute(
        self.slidingWindow, self.total, newValue, self.windowSize)
    return newAverage


  def getSlidingWindow(self):
    return self.slidingWindow


  def __setstate__(self, state):
    """ for loading this object"""
    self.__dict__.update(state)

    if not hasattr(self, "slidingWindow"):
      self.slidingWindow = []

    if not hasattr(self, "total"):
      self.total = 0
      self.slidingWindow = sum(self.slidingWindow)


  def __call__(self, value):
    return self.next(value)


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