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+# Copyright 2013-2020 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 PyF90wrap(PythonPackage):
+    """f90wrap is a tool to automatically generate Python extension
+    modules which interface to Fortran code that makes use of derived types."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jameskermode/f90wrap"
+    pypi = "f90wrap/f90wrap-0.2.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.2.3', sha256='5577ea92934c5aad378df21fb0805b5fb433d6f2b8b9c1bf1a9ec1e3bf842cff')
+
+    # TODO errors with python 3.6 due to UnicodeDecodeError
+    depends_on('python@3.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-numpy@1.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))