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+# Murder in the Park - A Robotic Mystery
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Jeffrey Armstrong (a.k.a. PrintStar)
+# http://jeff.rainbow-100.com/
+# 
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU 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 General Public License for more details.
+# 
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# 
+# A full version of the license terms is available in LICENSE.
+
+'''Simple data loader module.
+
+Loads data files from the "data" directory shipped with a game.
+
+Enhancing this to handle caching etc. is left as an exercise for the reader.
+'''
+
+import os
+
+#data_py = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+#data_dir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(data_py, '..', 'data'))
+data_dir = 'data'
+
+def filepath(filename):
+    '''Determine the path to a file in the data directory.
+    '''
+    return os.path.join(data_dir, filename)
+
+def load(filename, mode='rb'):
+    '''Open a file in the data directory.
+
+    "mode" is passed as the second arg to open().
+    '''
+    return open(os.path.join(data_dir, filename), mode)
+