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+"""Display information about the currently running emerge process.
+
+Requires the following executable:
+    * emerge
+
+Parameters:
+    * emerge_status.format: Format string (defaults to '{current}/{total} {action} {category}/{pkg}')
+
+This code is based on emerge_status module from p3status [1] original created by AnwariasEu.
+
+[1] https://github.com/ultrabug/py3status/blob/master/py3status/modules/emerge_status.py 
+"""
+
+import re
+import copy
+
+import core.module
+import core.widget
+import core.decorators
+
+import util.cli
+import util.format
+
+
+class Module(core.module.Module):
+    @core.decorators.every(seconds=10)
+    def __init__(self, config, theme):
+        super().__init__(config, theme, [])
+        self.__format = self.parameter(
+            "format", "{current}/{total} {action} {category}/{pkg}"
+        )
+        self.__ret_default = {
+            "action": "",
+            "category": "",
+            "current": 0,
+            "pkg": "",
+            "total": 0,
+        }
+
+    def update(self):
+        response = {}
+        ret = copy.deepcopy(self.__ret_default)
+        if self.__emerge_running():
+            ret = self.__get_progress()
+
+            widget = self.widget("status")
+            if not widget:
+                widget = self.add_widget(name="status")
+
+            if ret["total"] == 0:
+                widget.full_text("emrg calculating...")
+            else:
+                widget.full_text(
+                    " ".join(
+                        self.__format.format(
+                            current=ret["current"],
+                            total=ret["total"],
+                            action=ret["action"],
+                            category=ret["category"],
+                            pkg=ret["pkg"],
+                        ).split()
+                    )
+                )
+        else:
+            self.clear_widgets()
+
+    def __emerge_running(self):
+        """
+        Check if emerge is running.
+        Returns true if at least one instance of emerge is running.
+        """
+        try:
+            util.cli.execute("pgrep emerge")
+            return True
+        except Exception:
+            return False
+
+    def __get_progress(self):
+        """
+        Get current progress of emerge.
+        Returns a dict containing current and total value.
+        """
+        input_data = []
+        ret = {}
+
+        # traverse emerge.log from bottom up to get latest information
+        last_lines = util.cli.execute("tail -50 /var/log/emerge.log")
+        input_data = last_lines.split("\n")
+        input_data.reverse()
+
+        for line in input_data:
+            if "*** terminating." in line:
+                # copy content of ret_default, not only the references
+                ret = copy.deepcopy(self.__ret_default)
+                break
+            else:
+                status_re = re.compile(
+                    r"\((?P<cu>[\d]+) of (?P<t>[\d]+)\) "
+                    r"(?P<a>[a-zA-Z/]+( [a-zA-Z]+)?) "
+                    r"\((?P<ca>[\w\-]+)/(?P<p>[\w.]+)"
+                )
+                res = status_re.search(line)
+                if res is not None:
+                    ret["action"] = res.group("a").lower()
+                    ret["category"] = res.group("ca")
+                    ret["current"] = res.group("cu")
+                    ret["pkg"] = res.group("p")
+                    ret["total"] = res.group("t")
+                    break
+        return ret
+
+
+# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4