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+# The Python web framework on which NetBox is built
+# https://github.com/django/django
 Django
+
+# Django middleware which permits cross-domain API requests
+# https://github.com/OttoYiu/django-cors-headers
 django-cors-headers
+
+# Runtime UI tool for debugging Django
+# https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar
 django-debug-toolbar
+
+# Library for writing reusable URL query filters
+# https://github.com/carltongibson/django-filter
 django-filter
+
+# Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (recursive nesting of objects)
+# https://github.com/django-mptt/django-mptt
 django-mptt
+
+# Abstraction models for rendering and paginating HTML tables
+# https://github.com/jieter/django-tables2
 django-tables2
+
+# User-defined tags for objects
+# https://github.com/alex/django-taggit
 django-taggit
+
+# A Django REST Framework serializer which represents tags
+# https://github.com/glemmaPaul/django-taggit-serializer
 django-taggit-serializer
+
+# A Django field for representing time zones
+# https://github.com/mfogel/django-timezone-field/
 django-timezone-field
+
+# A REST API framework for Django projects
+# https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework
 djangorestframework
+
+# Swagger/OpenAPI schema generation for REST APIs
+# https://github.com/axnsan12/drf-yasg
 drf-yasg[validation]
+
+# Python interface to the graphviz graph rendering utility
+# https://github.com/xflr6/graphviz
 graphviz
+
+# Simple markup language for rendering HTML
+# https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown
 # py-gfm requires Markdown<3.0
 Markdown<3.0
+
+# Library for manipulating IP prefixes and addresses
+# https://github.com/drkjam/netaddr
 netaddr
+
+# Fork of PIL (Python Imaging Library) for image processing
+# https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
 Pillow
+
+# PostgreSQL database adapter for Python
+# https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2
 psycopg2-binary
+
+# GitHub-flavored Markdown extensions
+# https://github.com/zopieux/py-gfm
 py-gfm
+
+# Extensive cryptographic library (fork of pycrypto)
+# https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome
 pycryptodome