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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 PyCheroot(PythonPackage):
+    """ Highly-optimized, pure-python HTTP server """
+
+    homepage = "https://cheroot.cherrypy.org/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/cheroot/cheroot-6.5.5.tar.gz"
+
+    version(
+        '6.5.5', sha256='f6a85e005adb5bc5f3a92b998ff0e48795d4d98a0fbb7edde47a7513d4100601')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-setuptools-scm@1.15.0:', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-setuptools-scm-git-archive@1.0:', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-more-itertools@2.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-six@1.11.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-backports-functools-lru-cache', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))