diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zeroconf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zeroconf/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..487f657680c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zeroconf/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
+, netifaces, six, enum-compat }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "zeroconf";
+  version = "0.18.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0s1840v2h4h19ad8lfadbm3dhzs8bw9c5c3slkxql1zsaiycvjy2";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ netifaces six enum-compat ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A pure python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ef410649380..16e9dfb4752 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -30073,25 +30073,7 @@ EOF
   zeitgeist = if isPy3k then throw "zeitgeist not supported for interpreter ${python.executable}" else
     (pkgs.zeitgeist.override{python2Packages=self;}).py;
 
-  zeroconf = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    pname = "zeroconf";
-    version = "0.18.0";
-    name = "${pname}-${version}";
-
-    src = fetchPypi {
-      inherit pname version;
-      sha256 = "0s1840v2h4h19ad8lfadbm3dhzs8bw9c5c3slkxql1zsaiycvjy2";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ netifaces six enum-compat ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A pure python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf";
-      license = licenses.lgpl21;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
-    };
-  };
+  zeroconf = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zeroconf { };
 
   zipfile36 = buildPythonPackage rec {
     pname = "zipfile36";