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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 PyRequestsUnixsocket(PythonPackage):
+    """Use requests to talk HTTP via a UNIX domain socket."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/msabramo/requests-unixsocket"
+    pypi     = "requests-unixsocket/requests-unixsocket-0.2.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.2.0', sha256='9e5c1a20afc3cf786197ae59c79bcdb0e7565f218f27df5f891307ee8817c1ea')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-requests@1.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-urllib3@1.8:', type=('build', 'run'))