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+# Copyright 2013-2024 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.package import *
+
+
+class PyCodespell(PythonPackage):
+    """check code for common misspellings"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell"
+    pypi = "codespell/codespell-2.2.6.tar.gz"
+
+    license("GPL-2.0", checked_by="cmelone")
+
+    version("2.2.6", sha256="a8c65d8eb3faa03deabab6b3bbe798bea72e1799c7e9e955d57eca4096abcff9")
+
+    depends_on("py-setuptools@64.0:", type="build")
+    depends_on("py-setuptools-scm@6.2: +toml", type="build")
+    conflicts("^py-setuptools-scm@8.0.0")