old_contents: # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
  ##############################################################################
  #
  #    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution	
  #    Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Tiny SPRL (<http://tiny.be>). All Rights Reserved
  #    $Id$
  #
  #    This program 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 of the License, or
  #    (at your option) any later version.
  #
  #    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  #    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  #    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  #    GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
  #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  #
  ##############################################################################
  
  try:
  	from functools import wraps
  except ImportError:
  	# this module doesn't exist in python < 2.5
  	# we define a identity decorator
  	def wraps(f):
  		def identity(x):
  			return x
  		return identity
  
new_contents: # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
  ##############################################################################
  #
  #    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution
  #    Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Tiny SPRL (<http://tiny.be>). All Rights Reserved
  #    $Id$
  #
  #    This program 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 of the License, or
  #    (at your option) any later version.
  #
  #    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  #    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  #    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  #    GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
  #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  #
  ##############################################################################
  
  __all__ = ['partial', 'wraps', 'update_wrapper']
  
  try:
      from functools import partial, wraps, update_wrapper
  except ImportError:
      # The functools module doesn't exist in python < 2.5
      # Code taken from python 2.5 
      # http://svn.python.org/view/python/tags/r254/Lib/functools.py?view=markup
  
      def partial(fun, *args, **kwargs):
          def _partial(*args2, **kwargs2):
              return fun(*(args+args2), **dict(kwargs, **kwargs2))
          return _partial
  
      ### --- code from python 2.5
  
      # update_wrapper() and wraps() are tools to help write
      # wrapper functions that can handle naive introspection
  
      WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS = ('__module__', '__name__', '__doc__')
      WRAPPER_UPDATES = ('__dict__',)
      def update_wrapper(wrapper,
                         wrapped,
                         assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS,
                         updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES):
          """Update a wrapper function to look like the wrapped function
  
             wrapper is the function to be updated
             wrapped is the original function
             assigned is a tuple naming the attributes assigned directly
             from the wrapped function to the wrapper function (defaults to
             functools.WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS)
             updated is a tuple naming the attributes off the wrapper that
             are updated with the corresponding attribute from the wrapped
             function (defaults to functools.WRAPPER_UPDATES)
          """
          for attr in assigned:
              setattr(wrapper, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr))
          for attr in updated:
              getattr(wrapper, attr).update(getattr(wrapped, attr, {}))
          # Return the wrapper so this can be used as a decorator via partial()
          return wrapper
  
      def wraps(wrapped,
                assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS,
                updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES):
          """Decorator factory to apply update_wrapper() to a wrapper function
  
             Returns a decorator that invokes update_wrapper() with the decorated
             function as the wrapper argument and the arguments to wraps() as the
             remaining arguments. Default arguments are as for update_wrapper().
             This is a convenience function to simplify applying partial() to
             update_wrapper().
          """
          return partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped,
                         assigned=assigned, updated=updated)
  
  
subject: fix the decorator "@wraps" to work on python < 2.5