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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ consumption.
 Behold, the power of Requests:
 
 ``` {.sourceCode .python}
+>>> import requests
 >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
 >>> r.status_code
 200