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 This project is an attempt to develop a fully Python-based interface
-to the AFS APIs. It is based on the Perl AFS module
-(http://search.cpan.org/~nog/AFS-2.6.1).
+to the AFS APIs. A lot of the structure is based on the Perl AFS
+module (http://search.cpan.org/~nog/AFS-2.6.1), but this will
+hopefully be a bit more Pythonic in its interface.
 
-The goal is essentially to implement the full "high-level" API of the
-Perl modules in a combination of Python and Pyrex.
+The goal is essentially to implement the full set of "high-level" APIs
+provided by the Perl modules in a combination of Python and
+Pyrex. This will typically involve a fairly simple wrapping of the C
+API in a Pyrex module (e.g. afs._pts), and then a higher-level
+wrapping of that Pyrex module in pure Python (e.g. afs.pts).
 
 I am depending on patches from other people, beacuse I will not finish
 this on my own. I think I've established enough of the structure that