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+Thrift Python Software Library
+
+License
+=======
+
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+
+Using Thrift with Python
+========================
+
+Thrift is provided as a set of Python packages. The top level package is
+thrift, and there are subpackages for the protocol, transport, and server
+code. Each package contains modules using standard Thrift naming conventions
+(i.e. TProtocol, TTransport) and implementations in corresponding modules
+(i.e. TSocket).  There is also a subpackage reflection, which contains
+the generated code for the reflection structures.
+
+The Python libraries can be installed manually using the provided setup.py
+file, or automatically using the install hook provided via autoconf/automake.
+To use the latter, become superuser and do make install.