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 **/axolotl.egg-info
 **/__pycache__
 .idea
+configs
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 ## Getting Started
+- install python 3.9.  3.10 and above are not supported.
 
 - Point the config you are using to a huggingface hub dataset (see [configs/llama_7B_4bit.yml](https://github.com/winglian/axolotl/blob/main/configs/llama_7B_4bit.yml#L6-L8))