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+"""cliutil - Utilities for CLI tools"""
+PKGNAME = 'conservancy_beancount'
+LICENSE = """
+Copyright © 2020  Brett Smith
+
+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.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."""
+
+import argparse
+import enum
+import logging
+import operator
+import os
+import pkg_resources
+import signal
+import sys
+import traceback
+import types
+
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    Iterable,
+    NoReturn,
+    Optional,
+    Sequence,
+    TextIO,
+    Type,
+    Union,
+)
+
+VERSION = pkg_resources.require(PKGNAME)[0].version
+
+class ExceptHook:
+    def __init__(self,
+                 logger: Optional[logging.Logger]=None,
+                 default_exitcode: int=3,
+    ) -> None:
+        if logger is None:
+            logger = logging.getLogger()
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.default_exitcode = default_exitcode
+
+    def __call__(self,
+                 exc_type: Type[BaseException],
+                 exc_value: BaseException,
+                 exc_tb: types.TracebackType,
+    ) -> NoReturn:
+        exitcode = self.default_exitcode
+        if isinstance(exc_value, KeyboardInterrupt):
+            signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+            os.kill(0, signal.SIGINT)
+            signal.pause()
+        elif isinstance(exc_value, OSError):
+            exitcode += 1
+            msg = "I/O error: {e.filename}: {e.strerror}".format(e=exc_value)
+        else:
+            parts = [type(exc_value).__name__, *exc_value.args]
+            msg = "internal " + ": ".join(parts)
+        self.logger.critical(msg)
+        self.logger.debug(
+            ''.join(traceback.format_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb)),
+        )
+        raise SystemExit(exitcode)
+
+
+class InfoAction(argparse.Action):
+    def __call__(self,
+                 parser: argparse.ArgumentParser,
+                 namespace: argparse.Namespace,
+                 values: Union[Sequence[Any], str, None]=None,
+                 option_string: Optional[str]=None,
+    ) -> NoReturn:
+        if isinstance(self.const, str):
+            info = self.const
+            exitcode = 0
+        else:
+            info, exitcode = self.const
+        print(info)
+        raise SystemExit(exitcode)
+
+
+class LogLevel(enum.IntEnum):
+    DEBUG = logging.DEBUG
+    INFO = logging.INFO
+    WARNING = logging.WARNING
+    ERROR = logging.ERROR
+    CRITICAL = logging.CRITICAL
+    WARN = WARNING
+    ERR = ERROR
+    CRIT = CRITICAL
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_arg(cls, arg: str) -> int:
+        try:
+            return cls[arg.upper()].value
+        except KeyError:
+            raise ValueError(f"unknown loglevel {arg!r}") from None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def choices(cls) -> Iterable[str]:
+        for level in sorted(cls, key=operator.attrgetter('value')):
+            yield level.name.lower()
+
+def add_loglevel_argument(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser,
+                          default: LogLevel=LogLevel.INFO) -> argparse.Action:
+    return parser.add_argument(
+        '--loglevel',
+        metavar='LEVEL',
+        default=default.value,
+        type=LogLevel.from_arg,
+        help="Show logs at this level and above."
+        f" Specify one of {', '.join(LogLevel.choices())}."
+        f" Default {default.name.lower()}.",
+    )
+
+def add_version_argument(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> argparse.Action:
+    progname = parser.prog or sys.argv[0]
+    return parser.add_argument(
+        '--version', '--copyright', '--license',
+        action=InfoAction,
+        nargs=0,
+        const=f"{progname} version {VERSION}\n{LICENSE}",
+        help="Show program version and license information",
+    )
+
+def setup_logger(logger: Union[str, logging.Logger]='',
+                 loglevel: int=logging.INFO,
+                 stream: TextIO=sys.stderr,
+                 fmt: str='%(name)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s',
+) -> logging.Logger:
+    if isinstance(logger, str):
+        logger = logging.getLogger(logger)
+    formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt)
+    handler = logging.StreamHandler(stream)
+    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+    logger.addHandler(handler)
+    logger.setLevel(loglevel)
+    return logger