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+PyMoxQuizz
+==========
+
+A MozQuizz question library for Python. See http://moxquizz.de/ for the original
+implementation in TCL.
+
+Documentation for this library can be built with Sphinx, or you can read it
+online at http://pymoxquizz.readthedocs.org/