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+# Copyright (c) 2016 Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>
+# This file is part of the "Sorting algorithms" project.
+# For details, see https://github.com/egor-tensin/sorting-algorithms.
+# Distributed under the MIT License.
+
+from . import input_kind
+
+
+class Algorithm:
+    def __init__(self, codename, display_name, f):
+        self.codename = codename
+        self.display_name = display_name
+        self.function = f
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def gen_input(n, case=input_kind.InputKind.AVERAGE):
+        #raise NotImplementedError('input generation is not defined for a generic algorithm')
+        return input_kind.gen_input_for_sorting(n, case)
+
+
+class SortingAlgorithm(Algorithm):
+    def gen_input(self, n, case=input_kind.InputKind.AVERAGE):
+        return input_kind.gen_input_for_sorting(n, case)