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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyDrmaa(PythonPackage):
+    """Python wrapper around the C DRMAA library."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pygridtools/drmaa-python"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/d/drmaa/drmaa-0.7.9.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.7.9', sha256='12540cd98afc40d5c0b2f38d7b0e46468d1c45192a2f401f41fc2eda9c9f5542')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')