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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 PyWeave(PythonPackage):
+    """Weave provides tools for including C/C++ code within Python code.
+
+    Weave is the stand-alone version of the now-removed SciPy submodule
+    ``scipy.weave``. It is Python 2.x only, and is provided for users that
+    need new versions of SciPy but have existing code that still depends on
+    ``scipy.weave``. For new code, users are recommended to use Cython."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.github.com/scipy/weave"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/w/weave/weave-0.17.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.17.0', sha256='2703f3ae6d23ad47b5f09b6bcb7affd0fb587120a0c973e7be40ef24de709998')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.6:2.8', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-numpy', type=('build', 'run'))