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+""" Main for Jupytext
+
+Call with (e.g.)::
+
+    python -m jupytext my_notebook.ipynb --to Rmd
+"""
+
+import sys
+from .cli import jupytext
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(jupytext(sys.argv[1:]))