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+let
+  pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/b62d2a95c72fb068aecd374a7262b37ed92df82b.tar.gz") {};
+in pkgs.mkShell {
+  packages = [
+    (pkgs.python313.withPackages (python-pkgs: with python-pkgs; [
+      # select Python packages here
+      flask
+      flask-sqlalchemy
+      psycopg2
+    ]))
+  ];
+}
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