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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Curio is a coroutine-based library for concurrent systems programming"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/dabeaz/curio
+	https://pypi.org/project/curio
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+IUSE="examples"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs --no-autodoc
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	pytest -vv \
+			--deselect tests/test_network.py::test_ssl_outgoing \
+			--deselect tests/test_queue.py::test_uqueue_asyncio_consumer \
+			--deselect tests/test_sync.py::TestUniversalEvent::test_uevent_get_asyncio_set \
+			--deselect tests/test_sync.py::TestUniversalEvent::test_uevent_get_asyncio_wait \
+			--deselect tests/test_socket.py::test_tcp_echo \
+			--deselect tests/test_io.py::test_sendall_cancel \
+			|| die
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}