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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 PyPythonBenedict(PythonPackage):
+    """A dict subclass with keylist/keypath support, I/O shortcuts
+    and many utilities."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/python-benedict"
+    pypi     = "python-benedict/python-benedict-0.22.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.23.2', sha256='b7bdffd92ba1c9b9e044bda08ed545a48a45bd7a5207f93b4b2a8eb2660d1b4c')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-ftfy@4.4.3', when='python@:3.3.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-ftfy', when='python@3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-mailchecker', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-phonenumbers', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-python-dateutil', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-python-fsutil', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-python-slugify', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pyyaml', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-requests', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-six', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-toml', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-xmltodict', type=('build', 'run'))