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 To build the module, make sure you have built binary_c (with `make` in the binary_c root directory), its shared library (with `make libbinary_c.so` in the binary_c root directory), and set environment variables as described above, then run the following code in t:
 ```
- make clean
- make
+make clean
+make
 ```
 Then to test the Python module:
-
 ```
- python3 ./python_API_test.py
+python3 ./python_API_test.py
 ```
 You will require whatever libraries with which binary_c was compiled, as well as the compiler with which Python was built (usually gcc, which is easily installed on most systems).