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+# How to contribute
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+Please contribute to Nutshell! You can open issues if you find bugs and pull requests for improvements.
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+## Testing
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+We are using the `black` formatter and `mypy --ignore-missing` in the CI. To make sure that your tests succeed, please run `make format` before you push code.
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