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+## disclaimer:
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+i wrote this cli rapper for `markovify` because i wanted its features to be available as a cli tool and i published it on pypi.org because i wanted to share it with friends. 
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+it was written by a total novice, so you probably shouldn’t download it. i only learned about `argparser` yesterday, and pypi.org today, no matter what day it is. tomorrow i might learn about `os` and `sys`.
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+on the other hand, if you are a programmer and interested in expanding my terribly written non-programmer's code, by all means do!
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 ## mkv-this
 
 `mkv-this` is a little script that outputs a bunch of bot sentences based on a bank of text that you feed it. the results are saved to a text file of your choosing. if you run it again on the same output file, the new results are appended after the old ones.
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 it simply makes some of the features of the `markovify` python module available as a command line tool.
 
-it was written by a total novice, so you probably shouldn’t download it. i only learned about `argparser` yesterday, and pypi.org today, no matter what day it is. tomorrow i might learn about `os` and `sys`.
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 ### installing:
 
 install it with `pip`, the python package manager: