diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Scamper Tools
+# Scamper Python Tools
 
 Scamper is a scalable, efficient, and feature-rich Internet packet
 prober from CAIDA (http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/scamper/).
 
-Scamper is written in C and stores data in a binary "warts" format.
+Scamper stores data in a binary "warts" format.
 
 These tools replicate the functionality of scamper's utilities by
 providing native python implementations.  The following files 
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ are included:
 * sc_analysis_dump.py: covert scamper traces to easily parsed text
 * sc_wartsgrep.py:     create warts file containing only records of specified target
 * sc_sample.py:        sample python using warts class (for developers)
+* sc_sample_writer.py: sample python using warts_writer class (for developers)
 * sc_attach.py:        interact with scamper over control socket
diff --git a/sc_sample_writer.py b/sc_sample_writer.py
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+++ b/sc_sample_writer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Program:      $Id: $ 
+# Author:       Robert Beverly <rbeverly@nps.edu>
+# Description:  Example use of sc_warts_writer library.  
+#
+import sys
+import time
+from sc_warts_writer import WartsWriter, WartsTrace
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  assert len(sys.argv) == 2
+  
+  now = time.time()
+  w = WartsWriter(sys.argv[1])
+  w.write_list(1, 1, 'sc_sample_writer demo')
+  w.write_cycle(1, 1, 1, now)
+  tr = WartsTrace()
+  tr.add({'listid' : 1, 'srcport' : 1234, 'dstport' : 80,
+          'srcaddr' : '1.2.3.4', 'dstaddr' : '5.6.7.8',
+          'attempts' : 2, 'tracetyp' : 2, 'probehop' : 7,
+          'probesent' : 5, 'firsttl' : 4, 'timeval' : now + 1}) 
+
+  # hopflags (SCAMPER_TRACE_HOP_FLAG_REPLY_TTL)
+  reply = {'addr' : '4.4.4.4', 'rtt' : 23456,
+            'ipid' : 1234, 'probesize' : 60,
+            'replysize' : 54, 'probettl' : 4,
+            'replyttl' : 60, 'tos' : 0,
+            'icmp' : 4, 'hopflags' : 0x10}
+  tr.add_reply(reply)
+  reply = {'addr' : '6.6.6.6', 'rtt' : 834567,
+            'ipid' : 1234, 'probesize' : 60,
+            'replysize' : 54, 'probettl' : 6,
+            'replyttl' : 58, 'tos' : 0,
+            'icmp' : 4, 'hopflags' : 0x10}
+  tr.add_reply(reply)
+  w.write_object(tr)
+
+  # finish
+  w.write_cycle_stop(1, now+10)