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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 PyDateparser(PythonPackage):
+    """dateparser -- python parser for human readable dates"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/d/dateparser/dateparser-0.7.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.7.2', sha256='e1eac8ef28de69a554d5fcdb60b172d526d61924b1a40afbbb08df459a36006b')
+
+    variant('calendars', default=True, description='Add calendar libraries')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-python-dateutil@2.7.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pytz', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-regex', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-tzlocal', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-umalqurra', type=('build', 'run'), when='+calendars')
+    depends_on('py-ruamel-yaml', type=('build', 'run'), when='+calendars')
+    depends_on('py-convertdate', type=('build', 'run'), when='+calendars')
+    depends_on('py-jdatetime', type=('build', 'run'), when='+calendars')
+    depends_on('py-mock', type='test')
+    depends_on('py-nose', type='test')
+    depends_on('py-parameterized', type='test')
+    depends_on('py-six', type='test')
+    depends_on('py-coverage', type='test')