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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 PyPycares(PythonPackage):
+    """pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares
+    is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions
+    asynchronously."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/saghul/pycares"
+    url      = "https://github.com/saghul/pycares/archive/pycares-3.0.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.0.0', '5f938c037c5905ebc5617a157c654088')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.6:')
+    depends_on('py-cffi')