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NFC-Key
Advanced tools
NFC Key provides such and such and so and so. You might find it most useful for tasks involving and also . Typical usage often looks like this::
#!/usr/bin/env python
from nfckey import location
from nfckey import utils
if utils.has_key():
print "Your key is located:", location.where_is_my_key()
(Note the double-colon and 4-space indent formatting above.)
Paragraphs are separated by blank lines. Italics, bold,
and monospace look like this.
Lists look like this:
First
Second. Can be multiple lines but must be indented properly.
Numbered lists look like you'd expect:
hi there
must be going
Urls are http://like.this and links can be
written like this <http://www.example.com/foo/bar>_.
FAQs
NFC Key project
We found that NFC-Key demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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