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-# =============================================================================
-# DEPRECATION WARNING:
-#
-# This file exists purely for convenience so that requirements can be easily
-# installed with
-#
-# pip install -r requirements.txt
-#
-# and so that they show up on GitHub. Requirements of the package are
-# specified in setup.cfg. Currently parsing of requirements.txt files is not
-# supported by setup.cfg.
-#
-# If you make changes here, make sure to edit setup.cfg as well!
-# =============================================================================
-numpy>=1.20
-scipy>=1.4