diff --git a/bin/prepare_vecs.py b/bin/prepare_vecs.py
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+"""Read a vector file, and prepare it as binary data, for easy consumption"""
+
+import bz2
+import plac
+import struct
+
+from spacy.vocab import write_binary_vectors
+
+
+def main(in_loc, out_loc):
+    write_binary_vectors(in_loc, out_loc)
+    
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    plac.call(main)