#! /usr/bin/python
 
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# author: 		J Skinner
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import string
import os
import sys
 
 
 
#------------------------    CODE    ------------------------------------
 
def get_file_as_string(fname):
    return '\n'.join(open(fname).readlines())
 
def flatten(list):
    return [_i[0] for _i in list]
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