diff --git a/scripts/make-sfx.sh b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
index 08f8df42..c811fc51 100755
--- a/scripts/make-sfx.sh
+++ b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
@@ -169,6 +169,15 @@ done
 	sed -r '/edit2">edit \(fancy/d' <$f >t && tmv "$f"
 }
 
+find | grep -E '\.py$' |
+  grep -vE '__version__' |
+  tr '\n' '\0' |
+  xargs -0 python ../scripts/uncomment.py
+
+f=dep-j2/jinja2/constants.py
+awk '/^LOREM_IPSUM_WORDS/{o=1;print "LOREM_IPSUM_WORDS = u\"a\"";next} !o; /"""/{o=0}' <$f >t
+tmv "$f"
+
 # up2k goes from 28k to 22k laff
 echo entabbening
 find | grep -E '\.(js|css|html|py)$' | while IFS= read -r f; do
diff --git a/scripts/uncomment.py b/scripts/uncomment.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..56153ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/uncomment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals
+
+import io
+import sys
+import tokenize
+
+
+def uncomment(fpath):
+    """ modified https://stackoverflow.com/a/62074206 """
+
+    with open(fpath, "rb") as f:
+        orig = f.read().decode("utf-8")
+
+    out = ""
+    for ln in orig.split("\n"):
+        if not ln.startswith("#"):
+            break
+
+        out += ln + "\n"
+
+    io_obj = io.StringIO(orig)
+    prev_toktype = tokenize.INDENT
+    last_lineno = -1
+    last_col = 0
+    for tok in tokenize.generate_tokens(io_obj.readline):
+        # print(repr(tok))
+        token_type = tok[0]
+        token_string = tok[1]
+        start_line, start_col = tok[2]
+        end_line, end_col = tok[3]
+
+        if start_line > last_lineno:
+            last_col = 0
+
+        if start_col > last_col:
+            out += " " * (start_col - last_col)
+
+        is_legalese = (
+            "copyright" in token_string.lower() or "license" in token_string.lower()
+        )
+
+        if token_type == tokenize.STRING:
+            if (
+                prev_toktype != tokenize.INDENT
+                and prev_toktype != tokenize.NEWLINE
+                and start_col > 0
+                or is_legalese
+            ):
+                out += token_string
+            else:
+                out += '"a"'
+        elif token_type != tokenize.COMMENT or is_legalese:
+            out += token_string
+
+        prev_toktype = token_type
+        last_lineno = end_line
+        last_col = end_col
+
+    # out = "\n".join(x for x in out.splitlines() if x.strip())
+
+    with open(fpath, "wb") as f:
+        f.write(out.encode("utf-8"))
+
+
+def main():
+    print("uncommenting", end="")
+    for f in sys.argv[1:]:
+        print(".", end="")
+        uncomment(f)
+
+    print("k")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()