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+# Copyright (c) 2006 Marcos Pinto ('markybob') <markybob@gmail.com>
+
+This is pretty much taken straight out of PEP 8, the "Style Guide for Python 
+Code" (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/)
+More or less, if you try to submit a patch that doesn't follow this guide, odds
+are your patch will be denied...unless it does some incredibly magnificient 
+things, in which case I *might* edit it.  Don't bet on it, though.
+
+Here are the highlights:
+    Indents are FOUR (4) spaces.  Not 8, not 5 or 2 and definitely NOT tab.
+    Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.
+    Use UTF-8 encoding
+    Every single import should be on its own line
+    Avoid extraneous whitespace in the following situations:
+        Yes: spam(ham[1], {eggs: 2})
+        No:  spam( ham[ 1 ], { eggs: 2 } )
+        Yes: spam(1)
+        No:  spam (1)
+        Yes: if x == 4: print x, y; x, y = y, x
+        No:  if x == 4 : print x , y ; x , y = y , x
+        Yes: dict['key'] = list[index]
+        No:  dict ['key'] = list [index]
+        Yes:
+            x = 1
+            y = 2
+            long_variable = 3
+        No:
+            x             = 1
+            y             = 2
+            long_variable = 3