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-# This code is part of Qiskit.
-#
-# (C) Copyright IBM 2020.
-#
-# This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may
-# obtain a copy of this license in the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory
-# of this source tree or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
-#
-# Any modifications or derivative works of this code must retain this
-# copyright notice, and modified files need to carry a notice indicating
-# that they have been altered from the originals.
-
-"""
-Utils for test backends.
-"""