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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Author: Anthony Gargiulo (anthony@agargiulo.com)
+# Created Fri Jun 15 2012
+
+from pygithub3 import Github
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+
+parser = ArgumentParser(description="makes a local backup copy of all of a github user's repositories")
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+gh = Github()