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+/python-pyelectro-7a64bc7.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-pyelectro.spec b/python-pyelectro.spec
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+%bcond_without tests
+
+%global commit 7a64bc7fb131fbc4ee12a457d8e7355c66b3dd0c
+%global shortcommit %(c=%{commit}; echo ${c:0:7}) 
+
+%global pypi_name pyelectro
+
+%global _description %{expand:
+Tool for analysis of electrophysiology in Python.
+
+This package was originally developed by Mike Vella. This has been updated by
+Padraig Gleeson and others (and moved to NeuralEnsemble) to continue
+development of pyelectro and Neurotune for use in OpenWorm, Open Source Brain
+and other projects.}
+
+Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
+Version:        0.1.9
+Release:        20190720git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
+Summary:        A library for analysis of electrophysiological data
+
+License:        BSD
+URL:            https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/%{pypi_name}
+Source0:        https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/%{pypi_name}/archive/%{commit}/%{name}-%{shortcommit}.tar.gz
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%{?python_enable_dependency_generator}
+
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n python3-%{pypi_name}
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+
+# For documentation
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist sphinx}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist scipy}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist numpy}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist matplotlib}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist nose}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist mock}
+
+Requires:       %{py3_dist scipy}
+Requires:       %{py3_dist numpy}
+Requires:       %{py3_dist matplotlib}
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-%{pypi_name}}
+
+%description -n python3-%{pypi_name} %_description
+
+%package doc
+Summary:        %{summary}
+
+%description doc
+Documentation for %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{pypi_name}-%{commit}
+rm -rf %{pypi_name}.egg-info
+
+# Comment out to remove /usr/bin/env shebangs
+# Can use something similar to correct/remove /usr/bin/python shebangs also
+# find . -type f -name "*.py" -exec sed -i '/^#![  ]*\/usr\/bin\/env.*$/ d' {} 2>/dev/null ';'
+
+%build
+%py3_build
+
+make -C doc SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 html
+rm -rf doc/_build/html/{.doctrees,.buildinfo} -vf
+
+%install
+%py3_install
+
+%check
+%if %{with tests}
+nosetests-%{python3_version}
+%endif
+
+%files -n python3-%{pypi_name}
+%doc README.md
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}
+
+%files doc
+%doc doc/_build/html
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Jul 20 2019 Ankur Sinha <ankursinha AT fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.1.9-20190720git7a64bc7
+- Initial build
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+SHA512 (python-pyelectro-7a64bc7.tar.gz) = 0763f24c5188f3af2242b80a990601f438cd0413f1d8bc23f4071a1a1b549258132cca5b940786500b7d47e2a4e8bd5120db618c455c36612a994b52cbe49659