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(PDAL Debug) Debugging...
(pdal pipeline Debug) Attempting to load plugin '/home/bacek/miniconda3/envs/pdal-clean/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lib/libpdal_plugin_filter_python.so'.
(pdal pipeline Debug) Loaded plugin '/home/bacek/miniconda3/envs/pdal-clean/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lib/libpdal_plugin_filter_python.so'.
(pdal pipeline Debug) Initialized plugin '/home/bacek/miniconda3/envs/pdal-clean/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lib/libpdal_plugin_filter_python.so'.
(pdal pipeline Debug) Executing pipeline in standard mode.
(pdal pipeline filters.python Debug) 					filters.python source=[35 bytes], module=anything, function=foo
 processing 1065 points.
(pdal pipeline filters.python Debug) 					filters.python source=[35 bytes], module=anything, function=foo
 processing 1065 points.
(pdal pipeline writers.las Debug) Wrote 2130 points to the LAS file

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