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+Installation
+============
+
+VCR.py is a package on `PyPI <https://pypi.python.org>`__, so you can install
+with pip::
+
+    pip install vcrpy
+
+Compatibility
+-------------
+
+VCR.py supports Python 2.6 and 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and
+`pypy <http://pypy.org>`__.
+
+The following http libraries are supported:
+
+-  urllib2
+-  urllib3
+-  http.client (python3)
+-  requests (both 1.x and 2.x versions)
+-  httplib2
+-  boto
+-  Tornado's AsyncHTTPClient
+
+Speed
+-----
+
+VCR.py runs about 10x faster when `pyyaml <http://pyyaml.org>`__ can use the
+`libyaml extensions <http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML>`__. In order for this to
+work, libyaml needs to be available when pyyaml is built. Additionally the flag
+is cached by pip, so you might need to explicitly avoid the cache when
+rebuilding pyyaml.
+
+1. Test if pyyaml is built with libyaml. This should work::
+
+     python -c 'from yaml import CLoader'
+
+2. Install libyaml according to your Linux distribution, or using `Homebrew
+   <http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/>`__ on Mac::
+
+     brew install libyaml         # Mac with Homebrew
+     apt-get install libyaml-dev  # Ubuntu
+     dnf install libyaml-dev      # Fedora
+
+3. Rebuild pyyaml with libyaml::
+
+     pip uninstall pyyaml
+     pip --no-cache-dir install pyyaml
+
+Upgrade
+-------
+
+New Cassette Format
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The cassette format has changed in *VCR.py 1.x*, the *VCR.py 0.x*
+cassettes cannot be used with *VCR.py 1.x*. The easiest way to upgrade
+is to simply delete your cassettes and re-record all of them. VCR.py
+also provides a migration script that attempts to upgrade your 0.x
+cassettes to the new 1.x format. To use it, run the following command::
+
+    python -m vcr.migration PATH
+
+The PATH can be either a path to the directory with cassettes or the
+path to a single cassette.
+
+*Note*: Back up your cassettes files before migration. The migration
+*should* only modify cassettes using the old 0.x format.
+
+New serializer / deserializer API
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If you made a custom serializer, you will need to update it to match the
+new API in version 1.0.x
+
+-  Serializers now take dicts and return strings.
+-  Deserializers take strings and return dicts (instead of requests,
+   responses pair)
+
+Ruby VCR compatibility
+----------------------
+
+VCR.py does not aim to match the format of the Ruby VCR YAML files.
+Cassettes generated by Ruby's VCR are not compatible with VCR.py.