example cleanup - copy examples from rdflib-sparql

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+
+"""
+
+Prepared Queries Example
+------------------------
+
+Queries be prepared (i.e parsed and translated to SPARQL algebra)
+by
+
+rdlfib.plugins.sparql.prepareQuery
+
+When executing, variables can be bound with the 
+initBindings keyword parameter
+
+"""
+
+import rdflib
+from rdflib.plugins.sparql import prepareQuery
+
+
+q = prepareQuery(
+    'select ?s where { ?person <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows> ?s .}')
+
+g = rdflib.Graph()
+g.load("foaf.rdf")
+
+tim = rdflib.URIRef("http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i")
+
+for row in g.query(q, initBindings={'person': tim}):
+    print row