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+# Copyright 2013-2024 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.package import *
+
+
+class PyArt(PythonPackage):
+    """ASCII art library for Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.ascii-art.site"
+    pypi = "art/art-6.1.tar.gz"
+
+    license("MIT")
+
+    version("6.1", sha256="6ab3031e3b7710039e73497b0e750cadfe04d4c1279ce3a123500dbafb9e1b64")
+
+    depends_on("python@3.5:")