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+.PHONY: flake8 test coverage
+
+flake8:
+	flake8 --exclude "test_*" --max-line-length=80 --count --statistics --exit-zero tqdm/
+
+test:
+	nosetests tqdm -v
+
+coverage:
+	nosetests tqdm --with-coverage --cover-package=tqdm -v