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+# Copyright (C) 2011  Codethink Limited
+# 
+# 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 2 of the License.
+# 
+# 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+
+'''Utility functions for morph.'''
+
+
+def indent(string, spaces=4):
+    '''Return ``string`` indented by ``spaces`` spaces.
+    
+    The final line is not terminated by a newline. This makes it easy
+    to use this function for indenting long text for logging: the
+    logging library adds a newline, so not including it in the indented
+    text avoids a spurious empty line in the log file.
+    
+    '''
+
+    return '\n'.join('%*s%s' % (spaces, '', line) 
+                      for line in string.splitlines())
+