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 # pyerrors
 pyerrors is a python package for error computation and propagation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo data.
 It is based on the gamma method [arXiv:hep-lat/0306017](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0306017). Some of its features are: