import sys
lament = lambda *args, **kwargs: print(*args, file=sys.stderr, **kwargs)


def die(*args, **kwargs):
    lament(*args, **kwargs)
    sys.exit(1)


def easytruncnorm(lower=0, upper=1, loc=0.5, scale=0.25):
    import scipy.stats as stats
    a = (lower - loc) / scale
    b = (upper - loc) / scale
    return stats.truncnorm(a=a, b=b, loc=loc, scale=scale)


# only make some things visible to "from misc import *"
__all__ = [o for o in locals() if type(o) != 'module' and not o.startswith('_')]