diff --git a/bin/python-petstore.sh b/bin/python-petstore.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+SCRIPT="$0"
+
+while [ -h "$SCRIPT" ] ; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$SCRIPT"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    SCRIPT="$link"
+  else
+    SCRIPT=`dirname "$SCRIPT"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ ! -d "${APP_DIR}" ]; then
+  APP_DIR=`dirname "$SCRIPT"`/..
+  APP_DIR=`cd "${APP_DIR}"; pwd`
+fi
+
+root=./modules/swagger-codegen-distribution/pom.xml
+
+# gets version of swagger-codegen
+version=$(sed '/<project>/,/<\/project>/d;/<version>/!d;s/ *<\/\?version> *//g' $root | sed -n '2p' | sed -e 's,.*<version>\([^<]*\)</version>.*,\1,g')
+
+executable="./modules/swagger-codegen-distribution/target/swagger-codegen-distribution-$version.jar"
+
+if [ ! -f "$executable" ]
+then
+  mvn clean package
+fi
+
+# if you've executed sbt assembly previously it will use that instead.
+export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Xmx1024M -DloggerPath=conf/log4j.properties"
+ags="$@ -i http://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json -l python -o samples/client/petstore/python -t modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/python"
+
+java $JAVA_OPTS -jar $executable $ags