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-[submodule "portable_install/py7z"]
-	path = portable_install/py7z
-	url = https://github.com/rlbr/py7z.git
diff --git a/portable_install/py7z b/portable_install/py7z
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-Subproject commit f8cd5f769b730725f7d3288250e793a4fdb3ea17