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+# Documentation
+*.html linguist-documentation
+docs/* linguist-documentation
+docs/examples/* linguist-documentation
+docs/md_v2/* linguist-documentation
+
+# Explicitly mark Python as the main language
+*.py linguist-detectable=true
+*.py linguist-language=Python
+
+# Exclude HTML from language statistics
+*.html linguist-detectable=false
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