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# This line imports the modules we will need. The first is the sys module used
# to read the command line arguments. Second the Python Imaging Library to read
# the image and third numpy, a linear algebra/vector/matrix module.
import sys; from PIL import Image; import numpy as np

# This is a list of characters from low to high "blackness" in order to map the
# intensities of the image to ascii characters 
chars = np.asarray(list(' .,:;irsXA253hMHGS#9B&@'))
 
# Check whether all necessary command line arguments were given, if not exit and show a