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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 PyBlinker(PythonPackage):
+    """Fast, simple object-to-object and broadcast signaling"""
+
+    homepage = "https://pythonhosted.org/blinker/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/b/blinker/blinker-1.4.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.4', sha256='471aee25f3992bd325afa3772f1063dbdbbca947a041b8b89466dc00d606f8b6')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')