#! /usr/bin/env python
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#
# This file is basically a symlink to "python/setup.py" expressed in
# python code.  If python executes "setup.py", it will be effectively 
# executing "python/setup.py".
# This is required to allow PIP installation from a git repo, which assumes
# that "setup.py" is at the root.

import os.path
import imp

base_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.split(__file__)[0])

setup = os.path.join(base_dir, "python", "setup.py")
fobj = open(setup)
imp.load_module("__setup2__", fobj, setup, imp.get_suffixes()[3])

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