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 Client Library for Zun
 
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+This is a client library for Zun built on the Zun API.
+It provides a Python API (the zunclient module)
+and a command-line tool(zun).
 
 * Free software: Apache license
 * Documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/python-zunclient/latest/