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Yep, I got the same thing. Haven't merged it and probably won't. Since it appeared to be a bot that created the PR, it seemed like a rather underhanded, spammy way of promoting the repl.it project. It kinda reminds me of the whole tip4commit debacle with the flask project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969

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We're certainly not operating any bots if that's what you're implying.

The PR's commit message said that the commit was "automatically generated on repl.it". I guess I don't know how to interpret that. Maybe I'm mistaken and someone did manually created the PR with a bad commit message: https://github.com/davesque/go.py/pull/2

And I did eventually confirm that the commit was, in fact, created manually by an actual person and not a bot.

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