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+![a pigeon flying with their feet as a helicopter, quote When your program is a complete mess, but does its job](readme.jpg)
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+That's about what you would expect for the first larger than a few lines python thing (this) I have started from scratch and made functional.
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+To be honest, the HPE side is quite a bird-copter as well.
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