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 # Python3 bindings for nix
 
+Maintainer status: unmaintained
+
+I am not really using this project anymore and it would require some porting
+changes to newer nix apis.  You can also use the `nix eval --json --expr` to get
+json output from nix and use the python json library to parse it again.
+
+An example can be found here:
+https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update/blob/3143af043d4324ee4c6a91ff7294c5c34fe459b6/nix_update/eval.py#L77
+
+If you want to adopt the project, drop an email at joerg@thalheim.io or find on matrix in the nixos channel.
+
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