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+# Copyright 2013-2021 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 PyMarkdown2(PythonPackage):
+    """A fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2"
+    pypi     = "markdown2/markdown2-2.3.9.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.4.0',  sha256='28d769f0e544e6f68f684f01e9b186747b079a6927d9ca77ebc8c640a2829b1b')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.5:3.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools',    type='build')