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 ## Dependencies
 
 Package and optional dependencies are declared in the `pyproject.toml`;
-additional dependencies for testing are listed in the `tox.ini`. 
+additional dependencies for testing are listed in the `tox.ini`.
 
 For linting and code-style we additionally require
 
-- `pylint` 
+- `pylint`
 
 For building the documentation we require