# display.py - A simple way to trace the intermediate steps of algorithms.
# AIFCA Python3 code Version 0.8.0 Documentation at http://aipython.org

# Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents
# http://artint.info
# Copyright David L Poole and Alan K Mackworth 2017.
# This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
# Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
# See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

class Displayable(object):
    """Class that uses 'display'.
    The amount of detail is controlled by max_display_level
    """
    max_display_level = 1   # can be overridden in subclasses

    def display(self,level,*args,**nargs):
        """print the arguments if level is less than or equal to the
        current max_display_level.
        level is an integer.
        the other arguments are whatever arguments print can take.
        """
        if level <= self.max_display_level:
            print(*args, **nargs)  ##if error you are using Python2 not Python3

def visualize(func):
    """A decorator for algorithms that do interactive visualization.
    Ignored here.
    """
    return func