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+# Read The Docs config
+# - http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/yaml-config.html
+
+# python version
+python:
+    version: 3.5
+    setup_py_install: true
+   
+# Just the HTML and indexing
+formats:
+    - none
+
+# Limit the requirements to building the docs
+requirements_file: docs/requirements.txt
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+sphinx-rtd-theme==0.2.5b2
+sphinx==1.6.4