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#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Python *sucks* at UTF-8 (don't tell me "It's fixed in Python 3"; I don't care, plus no one uses Python 3)

# If you put this at the top of every Python script, however, it get rids of most of the headaches dealing with STDIN

# and STDOUT (basically, akin to "perl -C31"). I don't know if it's all necessary; I just know that if I put it at

# the top of my scripts, most of the problems go away, and I can stop thinking about it.

import sys

import codecs

reload(sys)

sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(sys.stdin)

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)

sys.stdout.encoding = 'utf-8'

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