def find_cycles(tuples, allitems):
    # adapted from:
    # http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/01/detecting-cycles-in-directed-graph.html

    edges = util.defaultdict(set)
    for parent, child in tuples:
        edges[parent].add(child)
    nodes_to_test = set(edges)

    output = set()

    # we'd like to find all nodes that are
    # involved in cycles, so we do the full
    # pass through the whole thing for each
    # node in the original list.

    # we can go just through parent edge nodes.
    # if a node is only a child and never a parent,
    # by definition it can't be part of a cycle.  same
    # if it's not in the edges at all.
    for node in nodes_to_test:
        stack = [node]
        todo = nodes_to_test.difference(stack)
        while stack:
            top = stack[-1]
            for node in edges[top]:
                if node in stack:
                    cyc = stack[stack.index(node):]
                    todo.difference_update(cyc)
                    output.update(cyc)

                if node in todo:
                    stack.append(node)
                    todo.remove(node)
                    break
            else:
                node = stack.pop()
    return output
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