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+SUMMARY="Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text"
+DESCRIPTION="
+	html2text is a Python script that converts a page of HTML into clean,
+	easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be
+	valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).
+"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/html2text/html2text.py
+	https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text
+	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html2text
+	"
+SOURCE_URI="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/h/html2text/html2text-2016.1.8.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="088046f9b126761ff7e3380064d4792279766abaa5722d0dd765d011cf0bb079"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="2004-2008 Aaron Swartz"
+REVISION="1"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2 x86_64"
+
+SOURCE_DIR="html2text-$portVersion"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	python_html2text = $portVersion
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku
+	cmd:python
+	#python_setuptools
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel
+	python_setuptools
+	"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:python
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	$portPackageLinksDir/cmd~python/bin/python setup.py build
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	# GENERIC: all python_setuptools-based installs need this
+	export PATH="$portPackageLinksDir/cmd~python/bin:$PATH"
+	pythonVersion=$(python --version 2>&1 | sed 's/Python //' | head -c3)
+	installLocation=$prefix/lib/python$pythonVersion/vendor-packages/
+	export PYTHONPATH=$installLocation:$PYTHONPATH
+	mkdir -p $installLocation
+
+	python setup.py install \
+		--single-version-externally-managed \
+		--root=/ --prefix=$prefix
+}