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+# Copyright 2013-2020 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 PyCommonmark(PythonPackage):
+    """commonmark.py is a pure Python port of jgm's commonmark.js, a Markdown
+    parser and renderer for the CommonMark specification, using only native
+    modules."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/readthedocs/commonmark.py"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/commonmark/commonmark-0.9.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.9.0', sha256='867fc5db078ede373ab811e16b6789e9d033b15ccd7296f370ca52d1ee792ce0')
+
+    depends_on('py-future')