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+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, setuptoolsDarcs
+, pyutil
+, argparse
+, isPyPy
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "zfec";
+  version = "1.4.24";
+  disabled = isPyPy;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1ks94zlpy7n8sb8380gf90gx85qy0p9073wi1wngg6mccxp9xsg3";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ setuptoolsDarcs ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyutil argparse ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://allmydata.org/trac/zfec;
+    description = "Zfec, a fast erasure codec which can be used with the command-line, C, Python, or Haskell";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Fast, portable, programmable erasure coding a.k.a. "forward
+      error correction": the generation of redundant blocks of
+      information such that if some blocks are lost then the
+      original data can be recovered from the remaining blocks. The
+      zfec package includes command-line tools, C API, Python API,
+      and Haskell API.
+    '';
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+  };
+
+}