# Murder in the Park - A Robotic Mystery
# Copyright (C) 2008 Jeffrey Armstrong (a.k.a. PrintStar)
# http://jeff.rainbow-100.com/
# 
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'''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)