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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 PyWebencodings(PythonPackage):
+    """This is a Python implementation of the WHATWG Encoding standard."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/gsnedders/python-webencodings"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/w/webencodings/webencodings-0.5.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.5.1', '32f6e261d52e57bf7e1c4d41546d15b8')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('python@2.6:2.8,3.3:',        type=('build', 'run'))