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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 PyPandocfilters(PythonPackage):
+    """A python module for writing pandoc filters"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/pandocfilters/pandocfilters-1.4.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.4.2', sha256='b3dd70e169bb5449e6bc6ff96aea89c5eea8c5f6ab5e207fc2f521a2cf4a0da9')