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+"""Utilities that might be useful elsewhere."""
+
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+ProgressIndicator = namedtuple(
+    "ProgressIndicator", ("filesize", "processedsize", "currentline", "percent"))
+
+def make_progress_calculator(filesize: int):
+    """
+    Returns a function that takes two arguments, `linenumber` and `linetext` and
+    return a `ProgressIndicator` object with the computed progress.
+    """
+    processedsize = 0
+    def __calculator__(linenumber: int, linetext: str) -> ProgressIndicator:
+        nonlocal processedsize
+        processedsize = processedsize + len(linetext)
+        return ProgressIndicator(
+            filesize, processedsize, linenumber,
+            ((processedsize/filesize) * 100))
+
+    return __calculator__