# Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Mitch Garnaat http://garnaat.org/
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# this is here for backward compatibility
# originally, the SNSConnection class was defined here
from boto.sns.connection import SNSConnection
from boto.regioninfo import RegionInfo, get_regions
from boto.regioninfo import connect


def regions():
    """
    Get all available regions for the SNS service.

    :rtype: list
    :return: A list of :class:`boto.regioninfo.RegionInfo` instances
    """
    return get_regions('sns', connection_cls=SNSConnection)


def connect_to_region(region_name, **kw_params):
    """
    Given a valid region name, return a
    :class:`boto.sns.connection.SNSConnection`.

    :type: str
    :param region_name: The name of the region to connect to.

    :rtype: :class:`boto.sns.connection.SNSConnection` or ``None``
    :return: A connection to the given region, or None if an invalid region
             name is given
    """
    return connect('sns', region_name,
                   connection_cls=SNSConnection, **kw_params)
