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-markovify ~= 0.9.0
-beautifulsoup4 ~= 4.9
-aiohttp ~= 3.0
-json5 ~= 0.9.5
-anyio ~= 3.0
-asqlite @ git+https://github.com/Rapptz/asqlite.git
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
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+beautifulsoup4 ~= 4.9
+aiohttp ~= 3.0
+json5 ~= 0.9.5
+anyio ~= 3.0
+aiosqlite ~= 0.17.0
+pendulum ~= 2.0
diff --git a/requirements/gpt2.txt b/requirements/gpt2.txt
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+fire ~= 0.1.3
+# this package claims perpetual backwards compatibility with the "re" module so we allow any version
+regex
+requests ~= 2.0
+tqdm ~= 4.0
+toposort ~= 1.0
diff --git a/requirements/markov.txt b/requirements/markov.txt
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+markovify ~= 0.9.0