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+import setuptools
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    name="st_speckmol",
+    version="0.0.1",
+    author="Avratanu Biswas",
+    author_email="avrab.yt@gmail.com",
+    description="Streamlit component for for Speck molecule visualization.",
+    long_description="Streamlit component for visualizing SPECK molecules - https://github.com/wwwtyro/speck",
+    long_description_content_type="text/plain",
+    url="https://github.com/avrabyt/Specklit",
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    classifiers=[],
+    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    install_requires=["streamlit >= 0.63", "ipyspeck==0.6.0",ipywidgets==7.7.0],
+)