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+Python Elasticsearch Client
+===========================
+
+Official low-level client for Elasticsearch. Its goal is to provide common
+ground for all Elasticsearch-related code in Python; because of this it tries
+to be opinion-free and very extendable.
+
+For a more high level client library with more limited scope, have a look at
+`elasticsearch-dsl`_ - it is a more pythonic library sitting on top of
+``elasticsearch-py``.
+
+.. _elasticsearch-dsl: http://elasticsearch-dsl.rtfd.org/
+
+Compatibility
+-------------
+
+The library is compatible with both Elasticsearch 1.x and 0.90.x but you
+**have to use a matching version**.
+
+For **Elasticsearch 1.0** and later, use the major version 1 (``1.x.y``) of the
+library.
+
+For **Elasticsearch 0.90.x**, use a version from ``0.4.x`` releases of the
+library.
+
+The recommended way to set your requirements in your `setup.py` or
+`requirements.txt` is::
+
+    # Elasticsearch 1.0
+    elasticsearch>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
+
+    # Elasticsearch 0.90
+    elasticsearch<1.0.0
+
+The development is happening on ``master`` and ``0.4`` branches, respectively.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Install the ``elasticsearch`` package with `pip
+<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/elasticsearch>`_::
+
+    pip install elasticsearch
+
+
+Example use
+-----------
+
+Simple use-case::
+
+    >>> from datetime import datetime
+    >>> from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
+
+    # by default we connect to localhost:9200
+    >>> es = Elasticsearch()
+
+    # create an index in elasticsearch, ignore status code 400 (index already exists)
+    >>> es.indices.create(index='my-index', ignore=400)
+    {u'acknowledged': True}
+
+    # datetimes will be serialized
+    >>> es.index(index="my-index", doc_type="test-type", id=42, body={"any": "data", "timestamp": datetime.now()})
+    {u'_id': u'42', u'_index': u'my-index', u'_type': u'test-type', u'_version': 1, u'ok': True}
+
+    # but not deserialized
+    >>> es.get(index="my-index", doc_type="test-type", id=42)['_source']
+    {u'any': u'data', u'timestamp': u'2013-05-12T19:45:31.804229'}
+
+`Full documentation`_.
+
+.. _Full documentation: http://elasticsearch-py.rtfd.org/
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+The client's features include:
+
+ * translating basic Python data types to and from json (datetimes are not
+   decoded for performance reasons)
+ * configurable automatic discovery of cluster nodes
+ * persistent connections
+ * load balancing (with pluggable selection strategy) across all available nodes
+ * failed connection penalization (time based - failed connections won't be
+   retried until a timeout is reached)
+ * support for ssl and http authentication
+ * thread safety
+ * pluggable architecture
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+Copyright 2015 Elasticsearch
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+Build status
+------------
+
+.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/elastic/elasticsearch-py.png
+   :target: http://travis-ci.org/#!/elastic/elasticsearch-py
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-Python Elasticsearch Client
-===========================
-
-Official low-level client for Elasticsearch. Its goal is to provide common
-ground for all Elasticsearch-related code in Python; because of this it tries
-to be opinion-free and very extendable.
-
-For a more high level client library with more limited scope, have a look at
-`elasticsearch-dsl`_ - it is a more pythonic library sitting on top of
-``elasticsearch-py``.
-
-.. _elasticsearch-dsl: http://elasticsearch-dsl.rtfd.org/
-
-Compatibility
--------------
-
-The library is compatible with both Elasticsearch 1.x and 0.90.x but you
-**have to use a matching version**.
-
-For **Elasticsearch 1.0** and later, use the major version 1 (``1.x.y``) of the
-library.
-
-For **Elasticsearch 0.90.x**, use a version from ``0.4.x`` releases of the
-library.
-
-The recommended way to set your requirements in your `setup.py` or
-`requirements.txt` is::
-
-    # Elasticsearch 1.0
-    elasticsearch>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
-
-    # Elasticsearch 0.90
-    elasticsearch<1.0.0
-
-The development is happening on ``master`` and ``0.4`` branches, respectively.
-
-
-Installation
-------------
-
-Install the ``elasticsearch`` package with `pip
-<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/elasticsearch>`_::
-
-    pip install elasticsearch
-
-
-Example use
------------
-
-Simple use-case::
-
-    >>> from datetime import datetime
-    >>> from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
-
-    # by default we connect to localhost:9200
-    >>> es = Elasticsearch()
-
-    # create an index in elasticsearch, ignore status code 400 (index already exists)
-    >>> es.indices.create(index='my-index', ignore=400)
-    {u'acknowledged': True}
-
-    # datetimes will be serialized
-    >>> es.index(index="my-index", doc_type="test-type", id=42, body={"any": "data", "timestamp": datetime.now()})
-    {u'_id': u'42', u'_index': u'my-index', u'_type': u'test-type', u'_version': 1, u'ok': True}
-
-    # but not deserialized
-    >>> es.get(index="my-index", doc_type="test-type", id=42)['_source']
-    {u'any': u'data', u'timestamp': u'2013-05-12T19:45:31.804229'}
-
-`Full documentation`_.
-
-.. _Full documentation: http://elasticsearch-py.rtfd.org/
-
-
-Features
---------
-
-The client's features include:
-
- * translating basic Python data types to and from json (datetimes are not
-   decoded for performance reasons)
- * configurable automatic discovery of cluster nodes
- * persistent connections
- * load balancing (with pluggable selection strategy) across all available nodes
- * failed connection penalization (time based - failed connections won't be
-   retried until a timeout is reached)
- * support for ssl and http authentication
- * thread safety
- * pluggable architecture
-
-
-License
--------
-
-Copyright 2015 Elasticsearch
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-
-Build status
-------------
-
-.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/elastic/elasticsearch-py.png
-   :target: http://travis-ci.org/#!/elastic/elasticsearch-py
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