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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import csv
+
+class Type(Enum):
+    Humans,
+    Prokaryotes,
+    Photosynthesizers,
+    Eukaryotic,
+    Dinosaurs,
+    Viruses
+
+class GraphNode:
+  def __init__(self, children : list[GraphNode] = [], parent : GraphNode = None, name="", description="", typ : Type = None):
+      self.children = children
+      self.name = name
+      self.description = description
+
+  def add_child(self, child : GraphNode) -> None:
+      self.children += child
+
+  def remove_child(self, name : str) -> GraphNode or None:
+      for c in self.children:
+          if name == c.name:
+              self.children.remove(c)
+
+  def set_parent(self, parent : GraphNode) -> None:
+      self.parent = parent
+
+  def set_name(self, name:str) -> None:
+      self.name = name
+
+  def set_desc(self, desc:str) -> None:
+      self.description = desc
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  multi_word_names = ["old world monkeys",
+                      "homo sapiens",
+                      "new world monkeys",
+                      "birds (avies)",
+                      "water lillies",
+                      "star anis & relatives",
+                      "vascular plants",
+                      "brown algae",
+                      "excavata (protists)",
+                      "sar protists",
+                      "seed plants",
+                      "red algae",
+                      "slime molds",
+                      "cellular slime molds",
+                      "plasmodial slime molds",
+                      "gram positive bacteria",
+                      "lemures lorises and bush babies"]
+  filename = "in.txt"
+  outfile = "parsed.txt"
+  nodes = []
+  with open(filename) as f:
+      current_node = None
+      for line in f:
+          in_body = False
+          if (len(line) == 1 or line in multi_word_names) and not in_body:
+              node = GraphNode(name=line)
+              current_node = node
+              nodes.append(node)
+          else:
+              current_node.description = line
+
+
+  for node in nodes: