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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)
+
+
+class PyColorful(PythonPackage):
+    """Terminal string styling done right, in Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/timofurrer/colorful"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/colorful/colorful-0.5.4.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.5.4', sha256='86848ad4e2eda60cd2519d8698945d22f6f6551e23e95f3f14dfbb60997807ea')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')