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for a list of settings. If you copy this file to `.env` it will be sourced by
`pipenv` automatically; you can also load it in your shell like `source .env`.
+If elasticsearch is not set up, you might want to create two empty indices:
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+ curl -XPUT localhost:9200/fatcat_release
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## Running Tests
Many (though not all) python tests depend on access to a local running API