utils.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright (C) 2010 Radim Rehurek <radimrehurek@seznam.cz>
# Licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

"""
This module contains various general utility functions.
"""

from __future__ import with_statement

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger('gensim.utils')

try:
    from html.entities import name2codepoint as n2cp
except ImportError:
    from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint as n2cp
try:
    import cPickle as _pickle
except ImportError:
    import pickle as _pickle

import re
import unicodedata
import os
import random
import itertools
import tempfile
from functools import wraps # for `synchronous` function lock
import multiprocessing
import shutil
import sys
import traceback
from contextlib import contextmanager

import numpy
import scipy.sparse

if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    unicode = str

from six import iteritems, u, string_types
from six.moves import xrange

try:
    from pattern.en import parse
    logger.info("'pattern' package found; utils.lemmatize() is available for English")
    HAS_PATTERN = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_PATTERN = False


PAT_ALPHABETIC = re.compile('(((?![\d])\w)+)', re.UNICODE)
RE_HTML_ENTITY = re.compile(r'&(#?)(x?)(\w+);', re.UNICODE)



def synchronous(tlockname):
    """
    A decorator to place an instance-based lock around a method.

    Adapted from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577105-synchronization-decorator-for-class-methods/
    """
    def _synched(func):
        @wraps(func)
        def _synchronizer(self, *args, **kwargs):
            tlock = getattr(self, tlockname)
            logger.debug("acquiring lock %r for %s" % (tlockname, func.func_name))

            with tlock: # use lock as a context manager to perform safe acquire/release pairs
                logger.debug("acquired lock %r for %s" % (tlockname, func.func_name))
                result = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
                logger.debug("releasing lock %r for %s" % (tlockname, func.func_name))
                return result
        return _synchronizer
    return _synched


class NoCM(object):
    def acquire(self):
        pass
    def release(self):
        pass
    def __enter__(self):
        pass
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        pass
nocm = NoCM()


@contextmanager
def file_or_filename(input):
    """
    Return a file-like object ready to be read from the beginning. `input` is either
    a filename (gz/bz2 also supported) or a file-like object supporting seek.

    """
    if isinstance(input, string_types):
        # input was a filename: open as text file
        with smart_open(input) as fin:
            yield fin
    else:
        input.seek(0)
        yield input


def deaccent(text):
    """
    Remove accentuation from the given string. Input text is either a unicode string or utf8 encoded bytestring.

    Return input string with accents removed, as unicode.

    >>> deaccent("Šéf chomutovských komunistů dostal poštou bílý prášek")
    u'Sef chomutovskych komunistu dostal postou bily prasek'

    """
    if not isinstance(text, unicode):
        # assume utf8 for byte strings, use default (strict) error handling
        text = text.decode('utf8')
    norm = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", text)
    result = u('').join(ch for ch in norm if unicodedata.category(ch) != 'Mn')
    return unicodedata.normalize("NFC", result)


def copytree_hardlink(source, dest):
    """
    Recursively copy a directory ala shutils.copytree, but hardlink files
    instead of copying. Available on UNIX systems only.
    """
    copy2 = shutil.copy2
    try:
        shutil.copy2 = os.link
        shutil.copytree(source, dest)
    finally:
        shutil.copy2 = copy2


def tokenize(text, lowercase=False, deacc=False, errors="strict", to_lower=False, lower=False):
    """
    Iteratively yield tokens as unicode strings, optionally also lowercasing them
    and removing accent marks.

    Input text may be either unicode or utf8-encoded byte string.

    The tokens on output are maximal contiguous sequences of alphabetic
    characters (no digits!).

    >>> list(tokenize('Nic nemůže letět rychlostí vyšší, než 300 tisíc kilometrů za sekundu!', deacc = True))
    [u'Nic', u'nemuze', u'letet', u'rychlosti', u'vyssi', u'nez', u'tisic', u'kilometru', u'za', u'sekundu']

    """
    lowercase = lowercase or to_lower or lower
    text = to_unicode(text, errors=errors)
    if lowercase:
        text = text.lower()
    if deacc:
        text = deaccent(text)
    for match in PAT_ALPHABETIC.finditer(text):
        yield match.group()


def simple_preprocess(doc, deacc=False, min_len=2, max_len=15):
    """
    Convert a document into a list of tokens.

    This lowercases, tokenizes, stems, normalizes etc. -- the output are final
    tokens = unicode strings, that won't be processed any further.

    """
    tokens = [token for token in tokenize(doc, lower=True, deacc=deacc, errors='ignore')
            if min_len <= len(token) <= max_len and not token.startswith('_')]
    return tokens


def any2utf8(text, errors='strict', encoding='utf8'):
    """Convert a string (unicode or bytestring in `encoding`), to bytestring in utf8."""
    if isinstance(text, unicode):
        return text.encode('utf8')
    # do bytestring -> unicode -> utf8 full circle, to ensure valid utf8
    return unicode(text, encoding, errors=errors).encode('utf8')
to_utf8 = any2utf8


def any2unicode(text, encoding='utf8', errors='strict'):
    """Convert a string (bytestring in `encoding` or unicode), to unicode."""
    if isinstance(text, unicode):
        return text
    return unicode(text, encoding, errors=errors)
to_unicode = any2unicode


class SaveLoad(object):
    """
    Objects which inherit from this class have save/load functions, which un/pickle
    them to disk.

    This uses pickle for de/serializing, so objects must not contain
    unpicklable attributes, such as lambda functions etc.

    """
    @classmethod
    def load(cls, fname, mmap=None):
        """
        Load a previously saved object from file (also see `save`).

        If the object was saved with large arrays stored separately, you can load
        these arrays via mmap (shared memory) using `mmap='r'`. Default: don't use
        mmap, load large arrays as normal objects.

        """
        logger.info("loading %s object from %s" % (cls.__name__, fname))
        subname = lambda suffix: fname + '.' + suffix + '.npy'
        obj = unpickle(fname)
        for attrib in getattr(obj, '__numpys', []):
            logger.info("loading %s from %s with mmap=%s" % (attrib, subname(attrib), mmap))
            setattr(obj, attrib, numpy.load(subname(attrib), mmap_mode=mmap))
        for attrib in getattr(obj, '__scipys', []):
            logger.info("loading %s from %s with mmap=%s" % (attrib, subname(attrib), mmap))
            sparse = unpickle(subname(attrib))
            sparse.data = numpy.load(subname(attrib) + '.data.npy', mmap_mode=mmap)
            sparse.indptr = numpy.load(subname(attrib) + '.indptr.npy', mmap_mode=mmap)
            sparse.indices = numpy.load(subname(attrib) + '.indices.npy', mmap_mode=mmap)
            setattr(obj, attrib, sparse)
        for attrib in getattr(obj, '__ignoreds', []):
            logger.info("setting ignored attribute %s to None" % (attrib))
            setattr(obj, attrib, None)
        return obj

    def save(self, fname, separately=None, sep_limit=10 * 1024**2, ignore=frozenset()):
        """
        Save the object to file (also see `load`).

        If `separately` is None, automatically detect large numpy/scipy.sparse arrays
        in the object being stored, and store them into separate files. This avoids
        pickle memory errors and allows mmap'ing large arrays back on load efficiently.

        You can also set `separately` manually, in which case it must be a list of attribute
        names to be stored in separate files. The automatic check is not performed in this case.

        `ignore` is a set of attribute names to *not* serialize (file handles, caches etc). On
        subsequent load() these attributes will be set to None.

        """
        logger.info("saving %s object under %s, separately %s" % (self.__class__.__name__, fname, separately))
        subname = lambda suffix: fname + '.' + suffix + '.npy'
        tmp = {}
        if separately is None:
            separately = []
            for attrib, val in iteritems(self.__dict__):
                if isinstance(val, numpy.ndarray) and val.size >= sep_limit:
                    separately.append(attrib)
                elif isinstance(val, (scipy.sparse.csr_matrix, scipy.sparse.csc_matrix)) and val.nnz >= sep_limit:
                    separately.append(attrib)

        # whatever's in `separately` or `ignore` at this point won't get pickled anymore
        for attrib in separately + list(ignore):
            if hasattr(self, attrib):
                tmp[attrib] = getattr(self, attrib)
                delattr(self, attrib)

        try:
            numpys, scipys, ignoreds = [], [], []
            for attrib, val in iteritems(tmp):
                if isinstance(val, numpy.ndarray) and attrib not in ignore:
                    numpys.append(attrib)
                    logger.info("storing numpy array '%s' to %s" % (attrib, subname(attrib)))
                    numpy.save(subname(attrib), numpy.ascontiguousarray(val))
                elif isinstance(val, (scipy.sparse.csr_matrix, scipy.sparse.csc_matrix)) and attrib not in ignore:
                    scipys.append(attrib)
                    logger.info("storing scipy.sparse array '%s' under %s" % (attrib, subname(attrib)))
                    numpy.save(subname(attrib) + '.data.npy', val.data)
                    numpy.save(subname(attrib) + '.indptr.npy', val.indptr)
                    numpy.save(subname(attrib) + '.indices.npy', val.indices)
                    data, indptr, indices = val.data, val.indptr, val.indices
                    val.data, val.indptr, val.indices = None, None, None
                    try:
                        pickle(val, subname(attrib)) # store array-less object
                    finally:
                        val.data, val.indptr, val.indices = data, indptr, indices
                else:
                    logger.info("not storing attribute %s" % (attrib))
                    ignoreds.append(attrib)
            self.__dict__['__numpys'] = numpys
            self.__dict__['__scipys'] = scipys
            self.__dict__['__ignoreds'] = ignoreds
            pickle(self, fname)
        finally:
            # restore the attributes
            for attrib, val in iteritems(tmp):
                setattr(self, attrib, val)
#endclass SaveLoad


def identity(p):
    """Identity fnc, for flows that don't accept lambda (picking etc)."""
    return p


def get_max_id(corpus):
    """
    Return the highest feature id that appears in the corpus.

    For empty corpora (no features at all), return -1.

    """
    maxid = -1
    for document in corpus:
        maxid = max(maxid, max([-1] + [fieldid for fieldid, _ in document])) # [-1] to avoid exceptions from max(empty)
    return maxid


class FakeDict(object):
    """
    Objects of this class act as dictionaries that map integer->str(integer), for
    a specified range of integers <0, num_terms).

    This is meant to avoid allocating real dictionaries when `num_terms` is huge, which
    is a waste of memory.

    """
    def __init__(self, num_terms):
        self.num_terms = num_terms


    def __str__(self):
        return "FakeDict(num_terms=%s)" % self.num_terms


    def __getitem__(self, val):
        if 0 <= val < self.num_terms:
            return str(val)
        raise ValueError("internal id out of bounds (%s, expected <0..%s))" %
                         (val, self.num_terms))

    def iteritems(self):
        for i in xrange(self.num_terms):
            yield i, str(i)

    def keys(self):
        """
        Override the dict.keys() function, which is used to determine the maximum
        internal id of a corpus = the vocabulary dimensionality.

        HACK: To avoid materializing the whole `range(0, self.num_terms)`, this returns
        the highest id = `[self.num_terms - 1]` only.

        """
        return [self.num_terms - 1]

    def __len__(self):
        return self.num_terms

    def get(self, val, default=None):
        if 0 <= val < self.num_terms:
            return str(val)
        return default


def dict_from_corpus(corpus):
    """
    Scan corpus for all word ids that appear in it, then construct and return a mapping
    which maps each ``wordId -> str(wordId)``.

    This function is used whenever *words* need to be displayed (as opposed to just
    their ids) but no wordId->word mapping was provided. The resulting mapping
    only covers words actually used in the corpus, up to the highest wordId found.

    """
    num_terms = 1 + get_max_id(corpus)
    id2word = FakeDict(num_terms)
    return id2word


def is_corpus(obj):
    """
    Check whether `obj` is a corpus. Return (is_corpus, new) 2-tuple, where
    `new is obj` if `obj` was an iterable, or `new` yields the same sequence as
    `obj` if it was an iterator.

    `obj` is a corpus if it supports iteration over documents, where a document
    is in turn anything that acts as a sequence of 2-tuples (int, float).

    Note: An "empty" corpus (empty input sequence) is ambiguous, so in this case the
    result is forcefully defined as `is_corpus=False`.

    """
    try:
        if 'Corpus' in obj.__class__.__name__: # the most common case, quick hack
            return True, obj
    except:
        pass
    try:
        if hasattr(obj, 'next'):
            # the input is an iterator object, meaning once we call next()
            # that element could be gone forever. we must be careful to put
            # whatever we retrieve back again
            doc1 = next(obj)
            obj = itertools.chain([doc1], obj)
        else:
            doc1 = next(iter(obj)) # empty corpus is resolved to False here
        if len(doc1) == 0: # sparse documents must have a __len__ function (list, tuple...)
            return True, obj # the first document is empty=>assume this is a corpus
        id1, val1 = next(iter(doc1)) # if obj is a numpy array, it resolves to False here
        id1, val1 = int(id1), float(val1) # must be a 2-tuple (integer, float)
    except:
        return False, obj
    return True, obj



def get_my_ip():
    """
    Try to obtain our external ip (from the pyro nameserver's point of view)

    This tries to sidestep the issue of bogus `/etc/hosts` entries and other
    local misconfigurations, which often mess up hostname resolution.

    If all else fails, fall back to simple `socket.gethostbyname()` lookup.

    """
    import socket
    try:
        import Pyro4
        # we know the nameserver must exist, so use it as our anchor point
        ns = Pyro4.naming.locateNS()
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
        s.connect((ns._pyroUri.host, ns._pyroUri.port))
        result, port = s.getsockname()
    except:
        try:
            # see what ifconfig says about our default interface
            import commands
            result = commands.getoutput("ifconfig").split("\n")[1].split()[1][5:]
            if len(result.split('.')) != 4:
                raise Exception()
        except:
            # give up, leave the resolution to gethostbyname
            result = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
    return result


class RepeatCorpus(SaveLoad):
    """
    Used in the tutorial on distributed computing and likely not useful anywhere else.

    """
    def __init__(self, corpus, reps):
        """
        Wrap a `corpus` as another corpus of length `reps`. This is achieved by
        repeating documents from `corpus` over and over again, until the requested
        length `len(result)==reps` is reached. Repetition is done
        on-the-fly=efficiently, via `itertools`.

        >>> corpus = [[(1, 0.5)], []] # 2 documents
        >>> list(RepeatCorpus(corpus, 5)) # repeat 2.5 times to get 5 documents
        [[(1, 0.5)], [], [(1, 0.5)], [], [(1, 0.5)]]

        """
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.reps = reps

    def __iter__(self):
        return itertools.islice(itertools.cycle(self.corpus), self.reps)

class RepeatCorpusNTimes(SaveLoad):

    def __init__(self, corpus, n):
        """
        Repeat a `corpus` `n` times.

        >>> corpus = [[(1, 0.5)], []]
        >>> list(RepeatCorpusNTimes(corpus, 3)) # repeat 3 times
        [[(1, 0.5)], [], [(1, 0.5)], [], [(1, 0.5)], []]
        """
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.n = n

    def __iter__(self):
        for _ in xrange(self.n):
            for document in self.corpus:
                yield document

class ClippedCorpus(SaveLoad):
    def __init__(self, corpus, max_docs=None):
        """
        Return a corpus that is the "head" of input iterable `corpus`.

        Any documents after `max_docs` are ignored. This effectively limits the
        length of the returned corpus to <= `max_docs`. Set `max_docs=None` for
        "no limit", effectively wrapping the entire input corpus.

        """
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.max_docs = max_docs

    def __iter__(self):
        return itertools.islice(self.corpus, self.max_docs)

    def __len__(self):
        return min(self.max_docs, len(self.corpus))

class SlicedCorpus(SaveLoad):
    def __init__(self, corpus, slice_):
        """
        Return a corpus that is the slice of input iterable `corpus`.

        Negative slicing can only be used if the corpus is indexable.
        Otherwise, the corpus will be iterated over.

        """
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.slice_ = slice_
        self.length = None

    def __iter__(self):
        if hasattr(self.corpus, 'index') and self.corpus.index:
            return (self.corpus.docbyoffset(i) for i in
                    self.corpus.index[self.slice_])
        else:
            return itertools.islice(self.corpus, self.slice_.start,
                                    self.slice_.stop, self.slice_.step)

    def __len__(self):
        # check cached length, calculate if needed
        if self.length is None:
            self.length = sum(1 for x in self)

        return self.length

def decode_htmlentities(text):
    """
    Decode HTML entities in text, coded as hex, decimal or named.

    Adapted from http://github.com/sku/python-twitter-ircbot/blob/321d94e0e40d0acc92f5bf57d126b57369da70de/html_decode.py

    >>> u = u'E tu vivrai nel terrore - L&#x27;aldil&#xE0; (1981)'
    >>> print(decode_htmlentities(u).encode('UTF-8'))
    E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (1981)
    >>> print(decode_htmlentities("l&#39;eau"))
    l'eau
    >>> print(decode_htmlentities("foo &lt; bar"))
    foo < bar

    """
    def substitute_entity(match):
        ent = match.group(3)
        if match.group(1) == "#":
            # decoding by number
            if match.group(2) == '':
                # number is in decimal
                return unichr(int(ent))
            elif match.group(2) == 'x':
                # number is in hex
                return unichr(int('0x' + ent, 16))
        else:
            # they were using a name
            cp = n2cp.get(ent)
            if cp:
                return unichr(cp)
            else:
                return match.group()

    try:
        return RE_HTML_ENTITY.sub(substitute_entity, text)
    except:
        # in case of errors, return input
        # e.g., ValueError: unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python build)
        return text


def chunkize_serial(iterable, chunksize, as_numpy=False):
    """
    Return elements from the iterable in `chunksize`-ed lists. The last returned
    element may be smaller (if length of collection is not divisible by `chunksize`).

    >>> print(list(grouper(range(10), 3)))
    [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], [9]]

    """
    import numpy
    it = iter(iterable)
    while True:
        if as_numpy:
            # convert each document to a 2d numpy array (~6x faster when transmitting
            # chunk data over the wire, in Pyro)
            wrapped_chunk = [[numpy.array(doc) for doc in itertools.islice(it, int(chunksize))]]
        else:
            wrapped_chunk = [list(itertools.islice(it, int(chunksize)))]
        if not wrapped_chunk[0]:
            break
        # memory opt: wrap the chunk and then pop(), to avoid leaving behind a dangling reference
        yield wrapped_chunk.pop()

grouper = chunkize_serial



class InputQueue(multiprocessing.Process):
    def __init__(self, q, corpus, chunksize, maxsize, as_numpy):
        super(InputQueue, self).__init__()
        self.q = q
        self.maxsize = maxsize
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.chunksize = chunksize
        self.as_numpy = as_numpy

    def run(self):
        if self.as_numpy:
            import numpy # don't clutter the global namespace with a dependency on numpy
        it = iter(self.corpus)
        while True:
            chunk = itertools.islice(it, self.chunksize)
            if self.as_numpy:
                # HACK XXX convert documents to numpy arrays, to save memory.
                # This also gives a scipy warning at runtime:
                # "UserWarning: indices array has non-integer dtype (float64)"
                wrapped_chunk = [[numpy.asarray(doc) for doc in chunk]]
            else:
                wrapped_chunk = [list(chunk)]

            if not wrapped_chunk[0]:
                self.q.put(None, block=True)
                break

            try:
                qsize = self.q.qsize()
            except NotImplementedError:
                qsize = '?'
            logger.debug("prepared another chunk of %i documents (qsize=%s)" %
                        (len(wrapped_chunk[0]), qsize))
            self.q.put(wrapped_chunk.pop(), block=True)
#endclass InputQueue


if os.name == 'nt':
    logger.info("detected Windows; aliasing chunkize to chunkize_serial")

    def chunkize(corpus, chunksize, maxsize=0, as_numpy=False):
        for chunk in chunkize_serial(corpus, chunksize, as_numpy=as_numpy):
            yield chunk
else:
    def chunkize(corpus, chunksize, maxsize=0, as_numpy=False):
        """
        Split a stream of values into smaller chunks.
        Each chunk is of length `chunksize`, except the last one which may be smaller.
        A once-only input stream (`corpus` from a generator) is ok, chunking is done
        efficiently via itertools.

        If `maxsize > 1`, don't wait idly in between successive chunk `yields`, but
        rather keep filling a short queue (of size at most `maxsize`) with forthcoming
        chunks in advance. This is realized by starting a separate process, and is
        meant to reduce I/O delays, which can be significant when `corpus` comes
        from a slow medium (like harddisk).

        If `maxsize==0`, don't fool around with parallelism and simply yield the chunksize
        via `chunkize_serial()` (no I/O optimizations).

        >>> for chunk in chunkize(range(10), 4): print(chunk)
        [0, 1, 2, 3]
        [4, 5, 6, 7]
        [8, 9]

        """
        assert chunksize > 0

        if maxsize > 0:
            q = multiprocessing.Queue(maxsize=maxsize)
            worker = InputQueue(q, corpus, chunksize, maxsize=maxsize, as_numpy=as_numpy)
            worker.daemon = True
            worker.start()
            while True:
                chunk = [q.get(block=True)]
                if chunk[0] is None:
                    break
                yield chunk.pop()
        else:
            for chunk in chunkize_serial(corpus, chunksize, as_numpy=as_numpy):
                yield chunk


def make_closing(base, **attrs):
    """
    Add support for `with Base(attrs) as fout:` to the base class if it's missing.
    The base class' `close()` method will be called on context exit, to always close the file properly.

    This is needed for gzip.GzipFile, bz2.BZ2File etc in older Pythons (<=2.6), which otherwise
    raise "AttributeError: GzipFile instance has no attribute '__exit__'".

    """
    if not hasattr(base, '__enter__'):
        attrs['__enter__'] = lambda self: self
    if not hasattr(base, '__exit__'):
        attrs['__exit__'] = lambda self, type, value, traceback: self.close()
    return type('Closing' + base.__name__, (base, object), attrs)


def smart_open(fname, mode='rb'):
    _, ext = os.path.splitext(fname)
    if ext == '.bz2':
        from bz2 import BZ2File
        return make_closing(BZ2File)(fname, mode)
    if ext == '.gz':
        from gzip import GzipFile
        return make_closing(GzipFile)(fname, mode)
    return open(fname, mode)


def pickle(obj, fname, protocol=-1):
    """Pickle object `obj` to file `fname`."""
    with smart_open(fname, 'wb') as fout: # 'b' for binary, needed on Windows
        _pickle.dump(obj, fout, protocol=protocol)


def unpickle(fname):
    """Load pickled object from `fname`"""
    with smart_open(fname) as f:
        return _pickle.load(f)


def revdict(d):
    """
    Reverse a dictionary mapping.

    When two keys map to the same value, only one of them will be kept in the
    result (which one is kept is arbitrary).

    """
    return dict((v, k) for (k, v) in iteritems(d))


def toptexts(query, texts, index, n=10):
    """
    Debug fnc to help inspect the top `n` most similar documents (according to a
    similarity index `index`), to see if they are actually related to the query.

    `texts` is any object that can return something insightful for each document
    via `texts[docid]`, such as its fulltext or snippet.

    Return a list of 3-tuples (docid, doc's similarity to the query, texts[docid]).

    """
    sims = index[query] # perform a similarity query against the corpus
    sims = sorted(enumerate(sims), key=lambda item: -item[1])

    result = []
    for topid, topcosine in sims[:n]: # only consider top-n most similar docs
        result.append((topid, topcosine, texts[topid]))
    return result


def randfname(prefix='gensim'):
    randpart = hex(random.randint(0, 0xffffff))[2:]
    return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), prefix + randpart)


def upload_chunked(server, docs, chunksize=1000, preprocess=None):
    """
    Memory-friendly upload of documents to a SimServer (or Pyro SimServer proxy).

    Use this function to train or index large collections -- avoid sending the
    entire corpus over the wire as a single Pyro in-memory object. The documents
    will be sent in smaller chunks, of `chunksize` documents each.

    """
    start = 0
    for chunk in grouper(docs, chunksize):
        end = start + len(chunk)
        logger.info("uploading documents %i-%i" % (start, end - 1))
        if preprocess is not None:
            pchunk = []
            for doc in chunk:
                doc['tokens'] = preprocess(doc['text'])
                del doc['text']
                pchunk.append(doc)
            chunk = pchunk
        server.buffer(chunk)
        start = end


def getNS():
    """
    Return a Pyro name server proxy. If there is no name server running,
    start one on 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), as a background process.

    """
    import Pyro4
    try:
        return Pyro4.locateNS()
    except Pyro4.errors.NamingError:
        logger.info("Pyro name server not found; starting a new one")
    os.system("python -m Pyro4.naming -n 0.0.0.0 &")
    # TODO: spawn a proper daemon ala http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278731/ ?
    # like this, if there's an error somewhere, we'll never know... (and the loop
    # below will block). And it probably doesn't work on windows, either.
    while True:
        try:
            return Pyro4.locateNS()
        except:
            pass


def pyro_daemon(name, obj, random_suffix=False, ip=None, port=None):
    """
    Register object with name server (starting the name server if not running
    yet) and block until the daemon is terminated. The object is registered under
    `name`, or `name`+ some random suffix if `random_suffix` is set.

    """
    if random_suffix:
        name += '.' + hex(random.randint(0, 0xffffff))[2:]
    import Pyro4
    with getNS() as ns:
        with Pyro4.Daemon(ip or get_my_ip(), port or 0) as daemon:
            # register server for remote access
            uri = daemon.register(obj, name)
            ns.remove(name)
            ns.register(name, uri)
            logger.info("%s registered with nameserver (URI '%s')" % (name, uri))
            daemon.requestLoop()


if HAS_PATTERN:
    def lemmatize(content, allowed_tags=re.compile('(NN|VB|JJ|RB)'), light=False, stopwords=frozenset()):
        """
        This function is only available when the optional 'pattern' package is installed.

        Use the English lemmatizer from `pattern` to extract tokens in
        their base form=lemma, e.g. "are, is, being" -> "be" etc.
        This is a smarter version of stemming, taking word context into account.

        Only considers nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs by default (=all other lemmas are discarded).

        >>> lemmatize('Hello World! How is it going?! Nonexistentword, 21')
        ['world/NN', 'be/VB', 'go/VB', 'nonexistentword/NN']

        >>> lemmatize('The study ranks high.')
        ['study/NN', 'rank/VB', 'high/JJ']

        >>> lemmatize('The ranks study hard.')
        ['rank/NN', 'study/VB', 'hard/RB']

        """
        if light:
            import warnings
            warnings.warn("The light flag is no longer supported by pattern.")

        # tokenization in `pattern` is weird; it gets thrown off by non-letters,
        # producing '==relate/VBN' or '**/NN'... try to preprocess the text a little
        # FIXME this throws away all fancy parsing cues, including sentence structure,
        # abbreviations etc.
        content = u(' ').join(tokenize(content, lower=True, errors='ignore'))

        parsed = parse(content, lemmata=True, collapse=False)
        result = []
        for sentence in parsed:
            for token, tag, _, _, lemma in sentence:
                if 2 <= len(lemma) <= 15 and not lemma.startswith('_') and lemma not in stopwords:
                    if allowed_tags.match(tag):
                        lemma += "/" + tag[:2]
                        result.append(lemma.encode('utf8'))
        return result
#endif HAS_PATTERN