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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 PyProgressbar2(PythonPackage):
+    """A progress bar for Python 2 and Python 3"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/WoLpH/python-progressbar"
+    url      = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/progressbar2/progressbar2-3.39.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.39.3', sha256='8e5b5419e04193bb7c3fea71579937bbbcd64c26472b929718c2fe7ec420fe39')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-six', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-python-utils', type=('build', 'run'))