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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 PyPyamg(PythonPackage):
+    """PyAMG is a library of Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) solvers with
+    a convenient Python interface."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pyamg/pyamg"
+    url      = "https://github.com/pyamg/pyamg/archive/v4.0.0.zip"
+
+    # A list of GitHub accounts to notify when the package is updated.
+    maintainers = ['benc303']
+
+    version('4.0.0', sha256="015d5e706e6e54d3de82e05fdb173c30d8b27cb8a117ab584cd62ad41d9ea042")
+
+    # Dependencies. A generic python dependency is added implicity by the
+    # PythonPackage class.
+    depends_on("py-setuptools", type="build")
+    depends_on("py-numpy", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-scipy", type=("build", "run"))