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+# Copyright 2013-2021 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 PyIocapture(PythonPackage):
+    """Capture stdout, stderr easily."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/oinume/iocapture"
+    pypi     = "iocapture/iocapture-0.1.2.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers = ['dorton21']
+
+    version('0.1.2', sha256='86670e1808bcdcd4f70112f43da72ae766f04cd8311d1071ce6e0e0a72e37ee8')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')