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+Documentation
+=============
+
+Getting Started
+---------------
+
+### Installing the requirements
+
+To install dependencies required to generate sphinx documentation locally, execute the following command from the main directory:
+
+    pip install -r requirements/docs.txt
+
+### Building documentation locally
+
+To generate Python SDK documentation locally, execute the following commands:
+
+    cd docs/
+    make html
+
+This will build HTML docs in `docs/build/html/index.html`. Open this file in your web browser to see the docs.
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