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-bin
-.idea
-.coverage
-.testrepository
-.stestr
-.tox
-*.sw[nop]
-.idea
-*.pyc
-.unit-state.db
-func-results.json
-.pydevproject
diff --git a/README b/README.rst
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rename from README
rename to README.rst