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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# _pipes.py
+# Copyright (C) 2017 LEAP
+#
+# This program 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.
+#
+# 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 General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+Components for piping data on streams.
+"""
+from io import BytesIO
+
+
+__all__ = ['TruncatedTailPipe']
+
+
+class TruncatedTailPipe(object):
+    """
+    Truncate the last `tail_size` bytes from the stream.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, output=None, tail_size=16):
+        self.tail_size = tail_size
+        self.output = output or BytesIO()
+        self.buffer = BytesIO()
+
+    def write(self, data):
+        self.buffer.write(data)
+        if self.buffer.tell() > self.tail_size:
+            self._truncate_tail()
+
+    def _truncate_tail(self):
+            overflow_size = self.buffer.tell() - self.tail_size
+            self.buffer.seek(0)
+            self.output.write(self.buffer.read(overflow_size))
+            remaining = self.buffer.read()
+            self.buffer.seek(0)
+            self.buffer.write(remaining)
+            self.buffer.truncate()
+
+    def close(self):
+        return self.output