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 ### Contributors
 
-Pry is primarily the work of [John Mair (banisterfiend)]((http://github.com/banister)), for full list
+Pry is primarily the work of [John Mair (banisterfiend)](http://github.com/banister), for full list
 of contributors see the
 [CONTRIBUTORS](https://github.com/pry/pry/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS) file.