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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from itertools import imap as map
+from itertools import izip as zip
+
+import re
+whitespace_chars = {
+	'\a': r'\a',
+	'\b': r'\b',
+	'\t': r'\t',
+	'\n': r'\n',
+	'\v': r'\v',
+	'\f': r'\f',
+	'\r': r'\r',
+}
+whitespace_chars_exp = re.compile('[' + ''.join(whitespace_chars) + ']')
+chars_to_escape = dict(zip(map(chr, xrange(0x00, 0x20)), ('\\' + ch for ch in map(chr, xrange(0x00, 0x20)))))
+for ch in '{}' "'" '"' '$*?':
+	chars_to_escape[ch] = '\\' + ch
+for ch in whitespace_chars:
+	del chars_to_escape[ch] # Let whitespace_chars handle these.
+chars_to_escape_exp = re.compile('[][\\' + ''.join(chars_to_escape) + ']')
+chars_to_escape['['] = '\['
+chars_to_escape[']'] = '\]'
+chars_to_escape['\\'] = '\\\\'
+minimal_chars_to_escape_exp = re.compile("[\\']")
+
+def quote_argument(arg):
+	count = 0
+	match = chars_to_escape_exp.search(arg)
+	while match:
+		count += 1
+		match = chars_to_escape_exp.search(arg, match.end())
+	else:
+		del match
+
+	if count > 2:
+		arg = "'" + re.sub(minimal_chars_to_escape_exp, lambda match: '\\' + match.group(0), arg) + "'"
+	else:
+		arg = re.sub(chars_to_escape_exp, lambda match: chars_to_escape[match.group(0)], arg)
+
+	arg = re.sub(whitespace_chars_exp, lambda match: whitespace_chars[match.group(0)], arg)
+	return arg
+
+def custom_rename(option, opt_str, value, parser):
+	for i, arg in enumerate(parser.rargs):
+		if arg == ';':
+			break
+	parser.values.ensure_value('custom_rename', parser.rargs[:i])
+	del parser.rargs[:i + 1]
+
+import optparse
+parser = optparse.OptionParser(description="This program batch-renames files, optionally using a VCS (such as svn, hg, or bzr) or other external program to do the renaming. You specify the rename operations using sed commands, which you specify using the -e option.")
+parser.add_option('-e', '--program', action='append', default=[''])
+parser.add_option('--vcs', metavar='VCS', help='Version-control system with which to rename files, using <VCS> mv <SRC> <DST>; overridden by          --custom-rename')
+parser.add_option('--custom-rename', help='Custom command to rename the file (e.g., hg mv); works like find(1) -exec (but with two {}, which are src and dst in that order), or you can use {SRC} and {DST}, or you can omit {...} entirely in which case src and dst will be appended in that order', action='callback', type=None, callback=custom_rename, default=None)
+parser.add_option('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true', default=False)
+opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+
+try:
+	custom_rename = opts.custom_rename
+except AttributeError:
+	try:
+		custom_rename = [opts.vcs, 'mv']
+	except AttributeError:
+		custom_rename = None
+
+def prefix_with_dash_e(seq):
+	for arg in seq:
+		yield '-e'
+		yield arg
+
+import subprocess
+sed = subprocess.Popen(['sed', '-El'] + list(prefix_with_dash_e(opts.program)), stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+
+import os, sys
+for src in args:
+	sed.stdin.write(src + '\n')
+	sed.stdin.flush()
+	dst = sed.stdout.readline().rstrip('\n')
+	if src == dst:
+		if not opts.quiet:
+			print >>sys.stderr, 'sed program did not transform %r - skipping' % (src,)
+	else:
+		if custom_rename:
+			src_and_dst = [src, dst]
+			rename_cmd = list(custom_rename)
+			for i, arg in enumerate(rename_cmd):
+				if arg == '{SRC}':
+					rename_cmd[i] = src
+				elif arg == '{DST}':
+					rename_cmd[i] = dst
+				elif arg == '{}':
+					try:
+						rename_cmd[i] = src_and_dst.pop(0)
+					except IndexError:
+						sys.exit('Too many {} arguments in custom rename command %r' % (custom_rename,))
+			else:
+				rename_cmd += src_and_dst
+
+			if not opts.quiet:
+				print >>sys.stderr, ' '.join(map(quote_argument, rename_cmd))
+			subprocess.check_call(rename_cmd)
+		else:
+			if not opts.quiet:
+				print >>sys.stderr, 'Renaming %r to %r' % (src, dst)
+			os.rename(src, dst)
+
+sed.stdin.close()
+sys.exit(sed.wait())