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-#
-# Copyright 2013 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.
-
-"""
-Module for manipulating and verifying the msgpack files.
-
-Intended for testing update logic of msgpack files.
-"""
-import argparse
-import datetime
-import functools
-import itertools
-import os
-import sys
-
-import msgpack
-
-import zipline.data.loader as loader
-from zipline.utils.date_utils import tuple_to_date
-
-
-DATA_SOURCES = {
-    'benchmark': {
-        'filename': '^GSPC_benchmark.msgpack',
-        'download_func':
-        functools.partial(loader.dump_benchmarks, '^GSPC')
-    },
-    'treasury': {
-        'filename': 'treasury_curves.msgpack',
-        'download_func': loader.dump_treasury_curves
-    }
-}
-
-
-def last_date(source_name, args):
-    data = loader.get_saved_data(DATA_SOURCES[source_name]['filename'])
-    date = tuple_to_date(data[-1][0])
-    print "Last saved {source_name} date is {date}".format(
-        source_name=source_name, date=date)
-
-
-def drop_before_date(source_name, last_date):
-    """
-    Loads the msgpack file for the given @source_name and drops values
-    up to @last_date.
-
-    Used so that we can test logic that updates the msgpack's to download
-    current data if the data isn't current enough.
-    """
-    filename = DATA_SOURCES[source_name]['filename']
-    data = loader.get_saved_data(filename)
-
-    filtered_data = itertools.takewhile(
-        lambda x: tuple_to_date(x[0]).date() <= last_date.date(), data)
-
-    with loader.get_datafile(filename, mode='wb') as fp:
-        fp.write(msgpack.dumps(list(filtered_data)))
-
-
-def drop_wrapper(source_name, args):
-    if not args.last_date:
-        sys.exit("Last date must be supplied for drop.")
-    last_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(args.last_date, "%Y-%m-%d")
-
-    drop_before_date(source_name, last_date)
-
-
-def force_load(source_name, args):
-    if not os.path.exists(loader.DATA_PATH):
-        os.makedirs(loader.DATA_PATH)
-
-    filename = (DATA_SOURCES[source_name]['filename'])
-
-    filepath = os.path.join(loader.DATA_PATH, filename)
-
-    os.remove(filepath)
-    DATA_SOURCES[source_name]['download_func']()
-
-
-ACTIONS = {
-    'last_date': last_date,
-    'drop_before_date': drop_wrapper,
-    'force_load': force_load
-}
-
-
-def _make_parser():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('action')
-    parser.add_argument('--data-source',
-                        action='append',
-                        choices=DATA_SOURCES.keys(),
-                        default=DATA_SOURCES.keys())
-    parser.add_argument('--last-date')
-    return parser
-
-
-def main():
-    parser = _make_parser()
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    for source_name in args.data_source:
-        ACTIONS[args.action](source_name, args)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()