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+# (c) 2016, Ansible by Red Hat <info@ansible.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible 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.
+#
+# Ansible 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 Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+
+
+def pct_to_int(value, num_items, min_value=1):
+    '''
+    Converts a given value to a percentage if specified as "x%",
+    otherwise converts the given value to an integer.
+    '''
+    if isinstance(value, string_types) and value.endswith('%'):
+        value_pct = int(value.replace("%", ""))
+        return int((value_pct / 100.0) * num_items) or min_value
+    else:
+        return int(value)
+
+
+def object_to_dict(obj, exclude=None):
+    """
+    Converts an object into a dict making the properties into keys, allows excluding certain keys
+    """
+    if exclude is None or not isinstance(exclude, list):
+        exclude = []
+    return dict((key, getattr(obj, key)) for key in dir(obj) if not (key.startswith('_') or key in exclude))
+
+
+def deduplicate_list(original_list):
+    """
+    Creates a deduplicated list with the order in which each item is first found.
+    """
+    seen = set()
+    return [x for x in original_list if x not in seen and not seen.add(x)]