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 # Brainfuck_PY_interpreter
  
+Brainfuck interpreter
+
+\> increment the data pointer (to point to the next cell to the right).
+
+\< decrement the data pointer (to point to the next cell to the left).
+
+\+ increment (increase by one) the byte at the data pointer.
+
+\- decrement (decrease by one) the byte at the data pointer.
+
+\. output the byte at the data pointer.
+
+\, accept one byte of input, storing its value in the byte at the data pointer.
+
+\[ if the byte at the data pointer is zero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it forward to the command after the matching
+]
+
+\] if the byte at the data pointer is nonzero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it back to the command after the matching [.