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+import urllib.request
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import zipfile
+import distutils.dir_util
+#import os
+
+SOURCE_URL = "https://github.com/krateng/maloja/archive/master.zip"
+
+
+update()
+
+def update():
+	print("Updating Maloja...")
+	with urllib.request.urlopen(SOURCE_URL) as response:
+		with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True) as tmpfile:
+			shutil.copyfileobj(response,tmpfile)
+			
+			with zipfile.ZipFile(tmpfile.name,"r") as z:
+				
+				for f in z.namelist():
+					print("extracting " + f)
+					z.extract(f)
+			
+			
+	
+	distutils.dir_util.copy_tree("./maloja-master/","./",verbose=2)
+	shutil.rmtree("./maloja-master")
+	print("Done!")