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-# pybind11 -- Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
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+# pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
 
 **pybind11** is a lightweight header library that exposes C++ types in Python
 and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code. Its
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