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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 PyGoogleApiCore(PythonPackage):
+    """Google API client core library."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/g/google-api-core/google-api-core-1.14.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.14.2', sha256='2c23fbc81c76b941ffb71301bb975ed66a610e9b03f918feacd1ed59cf43a6ec')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-googleapis-common-protos@1.6:1.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-protobuf@3.4.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-google-auth@0.4:1.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-requests@2.18:2.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools@34.0.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-six@1.10.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pytz', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-futures@3.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'), when='^python@:3.1')