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+SUMMARY = "Universal character encoding detector"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet"
+LICENSE = "MPLv1.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6ecda54f6f525388d71d6b3cd92f7474"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c428b6336545053c2589f6caf24ea32276c6664cb86db817e03a94c60afa0eaf"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3