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+# upstream has moved to pytest but not made a release yet.
+# For the time being, it uses nose, so we disable tests by default
+%bcond_with tests
+
+%global forgeurl https://github.com/frejanordsiek/hdf5storage
+
+%global _description %{expand:
+This Python package provides high level utilities to read/write a variety of
+Python types to/from HDF5 (Heirarchal Data Format) formatted files. This
+package also provides support for MATLAB MAT v7.3 formatted files, which are
+just HDF5 files with a different extension and some extra meta-data.
+
+All of this is done without pickling data. Pickling is bad for security because
+it allows arbitrary code to be executed in the interpreter. One wants to be
+able to read possibly HDF5 and MAT files from untrusted sources, so pickling is
+avoided in this package.
+
+The package's documetation is found at http://pythonhosted.org/hdf5storage/
+
+The package's source code is found at
+https://github.com/frejanordsiek/hdf5storage}
+
+Name:           python-hdf5storage
+Version:        0.1.18
+%global tag     %{version}
+Release:        %{autorelease}
+Summary:        Read/write Python types to/from HDF5 files, including MATLAB v7.3 MAT files
+%forgemeta
+
+License:        BSD
+URL:            %forgeurl
+Source0:        %forgesource
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n python3-hdf5storage
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+BuildRequires:  pyproject-rpm-macros
+
+%if %{with tests}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist pytest}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist nose}
+%endif
+
+%description -n python3-hdf5storage %_description
+
+%package doc
+Summary:        Documentation for %{name}
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist sphinx}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist numpydoc}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist sphinx-rtd-theme}
+
+%description doc
+This package provides documentation for %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%forgesetup
+
+# Comment out to remove /usr/bin/env shebangs
+# Can use something similar to correct/remove /usr/bin/python shebangs also
+# find . -type f -name "*.py" -exec sed -i '/^#![  ]*\/usr\/bin\/env.*$/ d' {} 2>/dev/null ';'
+
+%generate_buildrequires
+%pyproject_buildrequires %{?with_tests:-r}
+
+
+%build
+%pyproject_wheel
+
+# Sometimes needed so sphinx can import the module
+PYTHONPATH=".:.." make -C doc SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 html
+rm -rf doc/build/html/{.doctrees,.buildinfo} -vf
+
+%install
+%pyproject_install
+%pyproject_save_files hdf5storage
+
+%check
+%if %{with tests}
+%{pytest}
+# or %%{tox}
+%endif
+
+%files -n python3-hdf5storage -f %{pyproject_files}
+%doc README.rst
+
+%files doc
+%license COPYING.txt
+%doc doc/build/html
+
+%changelog
+%autochangelog