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-#
-# Copyright 2012 Quantopian, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-
-"""
-Various utilites used by different date loaders.
-
-Could stand to be broken up more into components.
-e.g. the mapping utilities.
-
-"""
-
-import datetime
-
-import pytz
-
-from collections import namedtuple
-
-from functools import partial
-
-from six import iteritems
-
-
-def get_utc_from_exchange_time(naive):
-    local = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')
-    local_dt = naive.replace(tzinfo=local)
-    utc_dt = local_dt.astimezone(pytz.utc)
-    return utc_dt
-
-
-def guarded_conversion(conversion, str_val):
-    """
-    Returns the result of applying the @conversion to @str_val
-    """
-    if str_val in (None, ""):
-        return None
-    return conversion(str_val)
-
-
-def date_conversion(date_str, date_pattern='%m/%d/%Y', to_utc=True):
-    """
-    Convert date strings from TickData (or other source) into epoch values.
-
-    Specify to_utc=False if the input date is already UTC (or is naive).
-    """
-    dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, date_pattern)
-    if to_utc:
-        dt = get_utc_from_exchange_time(dt)
-    else:
-        dt = dt.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
-    return dt
-
-
-# Mapping is a structure for how want to convert the source data into
-# the form we insert into the database.
-# - conversion, a function used to convert source input to our target value
-# - source, the key(s) in the original source to pass to the conversion
-#           method
-#           If a single string, then it's a direct lookup into the
-#           source row by that key
-#           If an iterator, pass the source to as a list of keys,
-#           in order, to the conversion function.
-#           If empty, then the conversion method provides a 'default' value.
-Mapping = namedtuple('Mapping', ['conversion', 'source'])
-
-
-def apply_mapping(mapping, row):
-    """
-    Returns the value of a @mapping for a given @row.
-
-    i.e. the @mapping.source values are extracted from @row and fed
-    into the @mapping.conversion method.
-    """
-    if isinstance(mapping.source, str):
-        # Do a 'direct' conversion of one key from the source row.
-        return guarded_conversion(mapping.conversion, row[mapping.source])
-    if mapping.source is None:
-        # For hardcoded values.
-        # conversion method will return a constant value
-        return mapping.conversion()
-    else:
-        # Assume we are using multiple source values.
-        # Feed the source values in order prescribed by mapping.source
-        # to mapping.conversion.
-        return mapping.conversion(*[row[source] for source in mapping.source])
-
-
-def _row_cb(mapping, row):
-    """
-    Returns the dict created from our @mapping of the source @row.
-
-    Not intended to be used directly, but rather to be the base of another
-    function that supplies the mapping value.
-    """
-    return {
-        target: apply_mapping(mapping, row)
-        for target, mapping
-        in iteritems(mapping)
-    }
-
-
-def make_row_cb(mapping):
-    """
-    Returns a func that can be applied to a dict that returns the
-    application of the @mapping, which results in a dict.
-    """
-    return partial(_row_cb, mapping)
-
-
-def source_to_records(mappings,
-                      source,
-                      source_wrapper=None,
-                      records_wrapper=None):
-    if source_wrapper:
-        source = source_wrapper(source)
-
-    callback = make_row_cb(mappings)
-
-    records = (callback(row) for row in source)
-
-    if records_wrapper:
-        records = records_wrapper(records)
-
-    return records