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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 PyPyperclip(PythonPackage):
+    """A cross-platform clipboard module for Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/pyperclip/pyperclip-1.7.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.7.0', sha256='979325468ccf682104d5dcaf753f869868100631301d3e72f47babdea5700d1c')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')