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 ### Python packages / libs
 
-- [python-gitlab](https://python-gitlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
-- [bs4](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/)
-- [csv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html) (Python Standard Library)
-- [docx](https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
+Set up the required python modules using
 
-You can install these using `pip` for example:
-
-```sh
-pip3 install python-gitlab bs4
+```shell
+python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
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+bs4
+docx
+lxml
+python-gitlab