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+argparse==1.2.1
+arrow==0.10.0
+bitstring==3.1.5
+cmd2==0.7.0
+colorama==0.3.9
+confluent-kafka==0.11.5
+cython==0.24.1
+decorator==4.1.2
+docker-py==1.10.6
+fluent-logger==0.6.0
+grpc==0.3.post19
+grpcio==1.3.5
+grpcio-tools==1.3.5
+hash_ring==1.3.1
+hexdump==3.3
+jinja2==2.8
+jsonpatch==1.16
+kafka_python==1.3.5
+klein==17.10.0
+kubernetes==5.0.0
+netaddr==0.7.19
+networkx==2.0
+nose==1.3.7
+nose-exclude==0.5.0
+nose-testconfig==0.10
+mock==2.0.0
+netifaces==0.10.6
+pcapy==0.11.1
+pep8==1.7.1
+pep8-naming>=0.3.3
+protobuf==3.3.0
+protobuf-to-dict==0.1.0
+pyflakes==1.6.0
+pylint==1.7.6
+#pypcap>=1.1.5
+pyOpenSSL==17.3.0
+PyYAML==3.12
+requests==2.18.4
+scapy==2.3.3
+service-identity==17.0.0
+simplejson==3.12.0
+jsonschema==2.6.0
+six==1.11.0
+structlog==17.2.0
+termcolor==1.1.0
+transitions==0.6.4
+treq==17.8.0
+Twisted==17.9.0
+txaioetcd==0.3.0
+urllib3==1.22
+pyang==1.7.3
+lxml==3.6.4
+nosexcover==1.0.11
+zmq==0.0.0
+pyzmq==16.0.3
+txZMQ==0.8.0
+ncclient==0.5.3
+xmltodict==0.11.0
+dicttoxml==1.7.4
+etcd3==0.7.0
+pyparsing==2.2.0
+packaging==17.1
+
+# python-consul>=0.6.1  we need the pre-released version for now, because 0.6.1 does not
+# yet support Twisted. Once this is released, it will be the 0.6.2 version
+git+https://github.com/cablehead/python-consul.git
+
+# Twisted Python kafka client
+git+https://github.com/ciena/afkak.git