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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 PyPydv(PythonPackage):
+    """PDV is a 1D graphics and data analysis tool, heavily based on the
+    ULTRA plotting tool"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/griffin28/PyDV"
+    url      = "https://github.com/griffin28/PyDV/archive/pydv-2.4.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.4.2', 'fff9560177387a258f765c2d900bb241')
+
+    depends_on('py-backports-functools-lru-cache')
+    depends_on('py-cycler')
+    depends_on('py-dateutil')
+    depends_on('py-matplotlib')
+    depends_on('py-pyside')
+    depends_on('py-scipy')