diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bespon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bespon/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7949675d651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bespon/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "0.3.0";
+  pname = "BespON";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0698vx1kh8c84f5qfhl4grdlyn1lljvdih8yczdz0pql8wkn8i7v";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ ];
+  # upstream doesn't contain tests
+  doCheck = false;
+  
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "bespon" ];
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Encodes and decodes data in the BespON format.";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/gpoore/bespon_py";
+    license = licenses.lgpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ synthetica ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e32dc03cd60..989fabf8b71 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1772,6 +1772,8 @@ in {
 
   beaker = callPackage ../development/python-modules/beaker { };
 
+  bespon = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bespon { };
+
   betamax = callPackage ../development/python-modules/betamax {};
 
   betamax-matchers = callPackage ../development/python-modules/betamax-matchers { };