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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)
+
+
+class PyPySpy(PythonPackage):
+    """A Sampling Profiler for Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/benfred/py-spy"
+    url      = "https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/archive/v0.3.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.3.3', sha256='41454d3d9132da45c72f7574faaff65f40c757720293a277ffa5ec5a4b44f902')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    # TODO: uses cargo to download and build dozens of dependencies.
+    # Need to figure out how to manage these with Spack once we have a
+    # CargoPackage base class.
+    depends_on('rust', type='build')