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+# GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
+# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 MediaGoblin contributors.  See AUTHORS.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+In some places, we need to access the database, public_store, queue_store
+"""
+
+import gettext
+import pkg_resources
+import threading
+
+
+#############################
+# General mediagoblin globals
+#############################
+
+# SQL database engine
+database = None
+
+# should be the same as the 
+public_store = None
+queue_store = None
+
+# A WorkBenchManager
+workbench_manager = None
+
+# A thread-local scope
+thread_scope = threading.local()
+
+# gettext (this needs to default to English so it doesn't break
+#   in case we're running a script without the app like
+#   ./bin/gmg theme assetlink)
+thread_scope.translations = gettext.translation(
+    'mediagoblin',
+    pkg_resources.resource_filename(
+        'mediagoblin', 'i18n'), ['en'], fallback=True)
+
+# app and global config objects
+app_config = None
+global_config = None
+
+# The actual app object
+app = None
+
+
+def setup_globals(**kwargs):
+    """
+    Sets up a bunch of globals in this module.
+
+    Takes the globals to setup as keyword arguments.  If globals are
+    specified that aren't set as variables above, then throw an error.
+    """
+    from mediagoblin import mg_globals
+
+    for key, value in kwargs.iteritems():
+        if not hasattr(mg_globals, key):
+            raise AssertionError("Global %s not known" % key)
+        setattr(mg_globals, key, value)