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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+"""This package contains code for creating analyzers to extract Application
+Binary Interface (ABI) information, along with simple analyses that just load
+existing metadata.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import spack.util.classes
+import spack.paths
+
+import llnl.util.tty as tty
+
+
+mod_path = spack.paths.analyzers_path
+analyzers = spack.util.classes.list_classes("spack.analyzers", mod_path)
+
+# The base analyzer does not have a name, and cannot do dict comprehension
+analyzer_types = {}
+for a in analyzers:
+    if not hasattr(a, "name"):
+        continue
+    analyzer_types[a.name] = a
+
+
+def list_all():
+    """A helper function to list all analyzers and their descriptions
+    """
+    for name, analyzer in analyzer_types.items():
+        print("%-25s: %-35s" % (name, analyzer.description))
+
+
+def get_analyzer(name):
+    """Courtesy function to retrieve an analyzer, and exit on error if it
+    does not exist.
+    """
+    if name in analyzer_types:
+        return analyzer_types[name]
+    tty.die("Analyzer %s does not exist" % name)