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 ``cryptography`` includes both high level recipes, and low level algorithms.
 For example, to encrypt something with ``cryptography``:
 
-.. code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: pycon
 
     >>> from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
     >>> # Put this somewhere safe!