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#include "pybind11/pybind11.h"

#include "lsst/base/ModuleImporter.h"

namespace py = pybind11;

namespace lsst {
namespace base {

class PythonModuleImporter : public ModuleImporter {
public:
    static ModuleImporter const* get() {
        static PythonModuleImporter const instance;
        return &instance;
    }

private:
    PythonModuleImporter() {}

protected:
    virtual bool _import(std::string const& name) const;
};

bool PythonModuleImporter::_import(std::string const& name) const {
    PyObject* mod = PyImport_ImportModule(name.c_str());
    if (mod) {
        Py_DECREF(mod);
        return true;
    } else {
        // If the Python C API call returned a null pointer, it will
        // also have set an exception.  We don't want that, because
        // this isn't necessarily an error (that's up to the caller).
        PyErr_Clear();
    }
    return false;
}

void installPythonModuleImporter() { ModuleImporter::install(PythonModuleImporter::get()); }

PYBIND11_MODULE(cppimport, mod) {
    lsst::base::installPythonModuleImporter();
}

}
}  // namespace lsst::base