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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 PySubmitit(PythonPackage):
+    """Python toolbox for submitting jobs to Slurm."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/facebookincubator/submitit"
+    pypi = "submitit/submitit-1.3.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.3.3', sha256='efaa77b2df9ea9ee02545478cbfc377853ddf8016bff59df6988bebcf51ffa7e')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type=('build', 'run'))
+
+    depends_on('py-cloudpickle@1.2.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-typing-extensions@3.7.4.2:', type=('build', 'run'))