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==========
 Cookbook
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 Some python recipes from the python cookbook
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Introduction
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This python package implements some recipes from the python cookbook. Some of the recipes are copied
verbatim from the python cookbook_ and some are modified versions of those at the cookbook. Others I
(John Reid) have written from scratch.

.. _cookbook: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/



License
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All novel parts of this software are released under the BSD. See the accompanying file python/cookbook/LICENSE.
Please also refer to original code for their licensing terms.




Prerequisites
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I have tested this software on python 2.6 and 2.7.




Installation
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The standard python package install method should work::

  python setup.py build
  python setup.py install

