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by duskdozer 108 days ago
It literally did copy significant portions of docstring comments, verbatim.
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The human driver of the project has a comment that is reporting that the project has no structural overlap as analyzed by a plagarism analysis tool. Were comments excluded from that analysis? Is your comment here based on the data in the repo?
> Were comments excluded from that analysis?

According to the analysis that you referenced:

> JPlag parses Python source into syntactic tokens (function definitions, assignments, control flow, etc.), discarding all variable names, comments, whitespace, and formatting