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 ## Dependencies
 
-Aside from **python 3**, the only dependency is the python 'requests' module, which can be installed via pip.
+Aside from **python 3**, the only dependency is the python 'requests' module, which can be installed via pip. Pip is the `package installer for python`. you don't need to know much of anything about python or pip, as long as you have it installed on the machine you're using.
 
 ```
 python -m pip install requests