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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 PyJson5(PythonPackage):
+    """The JSON5 Data Interchange Format (JSON5) is a superset of JSON that aims
+       to alleviate some of the limitations of JSON by expanding its syntax to
+       include some productions from ECMAScript 5.1."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/dpranke/pyjson5"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/j/json5/json5-0.9.4.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.9.4', sha256='2ebfad1cd502dca6aecab5b5c36a21c732c3461ddbc412fb0e9a52b07ddfe586')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')