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+"""
+This is a backwards compatibility-shim to support:
+
+ ```
+ import validate
+ ```
+
+ in a future release, we'd expect this to no longer work and
+ instead using:
+
+ ```
+ import configobj.validate
+ ```
+
+ or:
+
+ ```
+ from configobj import validate
+ ```
+"""
+from configobj.validate import *
+