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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 PyCachedProperty(PythonPackage):
+    """A decorator for caching properties in classes."""
+
+    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/cached-property/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/cached-property/cached-property-1.5.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.5.1', sha256="9217a59f14a5682da7c4b8829deadbfc194ac22e9908ccf7c8820234e80a1504")
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')