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Count Unique Contributors from Git Shortlog in Python

Parses git shortlog -sn output to count the number of unique contributors, handling duplicate entries and variable whitespace.

git parsing collections
Python 
import subprocess
from collections import Counter

# Mock shortlog output as a list of lines (simulating git shortlog -sn output)
MOCK_SHORTLOG = """  120  Alice Johnson
   88  Bob Smith
   45  Alice Johnson
   30  Carol Williams
   25  Bob Smith
   10  Dave Brown
"""

def count_contributors_from_shortlog(text):
    "…
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