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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 PyRequestsMock(PythonPackage):
+    """Mock out responses from the requests package."""
+
+    homepage = "https://requests-mock.readthedocs.io/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/r/requests-mock/requests-mock-1.7.0.tar.gz"
+
+    import_modules = ['requests_mock']
+
+    version('1.7.0', sha256='88d3402dd8b3c69a9e4f9d3a73ad11b15920c6efd36bc27bf1f701cf4a8e4646')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')