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+pandas>=0.22                   # Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics.
+olca-ipc>=0.0.8                # openlca tools
+pyarrow>=0.14                  # supports Apache parquet reading and writing
+pip>=9                         # The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.
+setuptools>=41                 # Fully-featured library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects.