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+# Copyright 2013-2018 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 PyInvoke(PythonPackage):
+    """Pythonic task execution"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.pyinvoke.org/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/i/invoke/invoke-1.2.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.2.0', 'dc492f8f17a0746e92081aec3f86ae0b4750bf41607ea2ad87e5a7b5705121b7')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')