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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 PyCheetah3(PythonPackage):
+    """Cheetah3 is a template engine and code generation tool."""
+
+    pypi = "Cheetah3/Cheetah3-3.2.6.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.2.6', sha256='f1c2b693cdcac2ded2823d363f8459ae785261e61c128d68464c8781dba0466b')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-markdown@2.0.1:', type=('build', 'run'))