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 # python-base
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kubernetes-client/python-base.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kubernetes-client/python-base)
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 This is the utility part of the [python client](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python). It has been added to the main
 repo using git submodules. This structure allow other developers to create
 their own kubernetes client and still use standard kubernetes python utilities.
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 # Development
 Any changes to utilites in this repo should be send as a PR to this repo. After
 the PR is merged, developers should create another PR in the main repo to update
-the submodule. See [this document](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python/blob/master/devel/submodules.md) for more guidelines.
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+the submodule. See [this document](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python/blob/master/devel/submodules.md) for more guidelines.