diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ptable/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ptable/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..02429f589cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ptable/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, nose }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ptable";
+  version = "unstable-2019-06-14";
+
+  # https://github.com/kxxoling/PTable/issues/27
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "kxxoling";
+    repo = "PTable";
+    rev = "bcfdb92811ae1f39e1065f31544710bf87d3bc21";
+    sha256 = "1cj314rp6irlvr0a2c4xffsm2idsb0hzwr38vzz6z3kbhphcb63i";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package=prettytable --cover-min-percentage=75
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/kxxoling/PTable";
+    description = "A simple Python library designed to make it quick and easy to represent tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.mmahut ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8c2a45c9148..72b06727f56 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3861,6 +3861,8 @@ in {
     prompt_toolkit = self.prompt_toolkit;
   };
 
+  ptable = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ptable { };
+
   publicsuffix = callPackage ../development/python-modules/publicsuffix {};
 
   py = callPackage ../development/python-modules/py { };