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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 PyAiosqlite(PythonPackage):
+    """asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module"""
+
+    homepage = "https://aiosqlite.omnilib.dev"
+    pypi     = "aiosqlite/aiosqlite-0.17.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.17.0', sha256='f0e6acc24bc4864149267ac82fb46dfb3be4455f99fe21df82609cc6e6baee51')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-typing-extensions@3.7.2:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-flit-core@2:3', type='build')
+
+    # aiosqlite.test requires aiounittests, not yet in spack
+    import_modules = ['aiosqlite']