diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/htmltreediff/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/htmltreediff/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5e839e4ada9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/htmltreediff/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, isPy3k, lxml, html5lib, nose, stdenv }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "v0.1.2";
+  pname = "htmltreediff";
+
+  disabled = isPy3k;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "christian-oudard";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "16mqp2jyznrw1mgd3qzybq28h2k5wz7vmmz1m6xpgscazyjhvvd1";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lxml html5lib ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = " Structure-aware diff for html and xml documents";
+    homepage = https://github.com/christian-oudard/htmltreediff;
+    license = licenses.bsdOriginal;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ma27 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f829f25ee0a..d0adbb05477 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -20389,30 +20389,7 @@ EOF
     };
   };
 
-  htmltreediff = buildPythonPackage rec{
-    version = "0.1.2";
-    pname = "htmltreediff";
-    name = pname + "-${version}";
-
-    # Does not work with Py >= 3
-    disabled = !isPy27;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "christian-oudard";
-      repo = pname;
-      rev = "v" + version;
-      sha256 = "16mqp2jyznrw1mgd3qzybq28h2k5wz7vmmz1m6xpgscazyjhvvd1";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ lxml html5lib ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = " Structure-aware diff for html and xml documents";
-      homepage = https://github.com/christian-oudard/htmltreediff;
-      license = licenses.bsdOriginal;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [];
-    };
-  };
+  htmltreediff = callPackage ../development/python-modules/htmltreediff { };
 
   repeated_test = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "repeated_test-${version}";