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**Added**
- A change log (guided by https://keepachangelog.com/)
- Notes on installation, usage, development and testing to the README
- A version badge from https://shields.io/
- Begin tracking development dependencies
**Changed**
- Explicitly list the packages to be included in the distribution
- Stop including tests in the distribution
- Stop using ``codecs.open`` since ``open`` does the job in Python 3
- Consistently name test cases with a TestCase suffix