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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 PyAsynctest(PythonPackage):
+    """The package asynctest is built on top of the standard unittest module
+    and cuts down boilerplate code when testing libraries for asyncio."""
+
+    homepage = "https://asynctest.readthedocs.io"
+    pypi     = "asynctest/asynctest-0.13.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.13.0', sha256='c27862842d15d83e6a34eb0b2866c323880eb3a75e4485b079ea11748fd77fac')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools@30.3:', type='build')