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+# Copyright (C) University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU Affero 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# This program is available from Source Forge: at GeneNetwork Project
+# (sourceforge.net/projects/genenetwork/).
+#
+# Contact Drs. Robert W. Williams and Xiaodong Zhou (2010)
+# at rwilliams@uthsc.edu and xzhou15@uthsc.edu
+#
+#
+#
+# This module is used by GeneNetwork project (www.genenetwork.org)
+#
+# Created by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/08/10
+#
+# Last updated by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/10/20
+
+class GeneralObject:
+    """
+    Base class to define an Object.
+    a = [Spam(1, 4), Spam(9, 3), Spam(4,6)]
+    a.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.eggs, y.eggs))
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
+        self.contents = list(args)
+        for name, value in kw.items():
+            setattr(self, name, value)
+
+    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        setattr(self, key, value)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        return getattr(self, key)
+
+    def __getattr__(self, key):
+        if key in self.__dict__.keys():
+            return self.__dict__[key]
+        else:
+            return eval("self.__dict__.%s" % key)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.__dict__) - 1
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        s = ''
+        for key in self.__dict__.keys():
+            if key != 'contents':
+                s += '%s = %s\n' % (key,self.__dict__[key])
+        return s
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        s = ''
+        for key in self.__dict__.keys():
+            s += '%s = %s\n' % (key,self.__dict__[key])
+        return s
+
+    def __cmp__(self,other):
+        return len(self.__dict__.keys()).__cmp__(len(other.__dict__.keys()))