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+# Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University
+# Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Open Networking Foundation
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Big Switch Networks, Inc.
+
+# Automatically generated by LOXI from template util.py
+# Do not modify
+
+import loxi
+import const
+import struct
+
+def pretty_mac(mac):
+    return ':'.join(["%02x" % x for x in mac])
+
+def pretty_ipv4(v):
+    return "%d.%d.%d.%d" % ((v >> 24) & 0xFF, (v >> 16) & 0xFF, (v >> 8) & 0xFF, v & 0xFF)
+
+def pretty_flags(v, flag_names):
+    set_flags = []
+    for flag_name in flag_names:
+        flag_value = getattr(const, flag_name)
+        if v & flag_value == flag_value:
+            set_flags.append(flag_name)
+        elif v & flag_value:
+            set_flags.append('%s&%#x' % (flag_name, v & flag_value))
+        v &= ~flag_value
+    if v:
+        set_flags.append("%#x" % v)
+    return '|'.join(set_flags) or '0'
+
+
+def pretty_port(v):
+    named_ports = [(k,v2) for (k,v2) in const.__dict__.iteritems() if k.startswith('OFPP_')]
+    for (k, v2) in named_ports:
+        if v == v2:
+            return k
+    return v