diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cram/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cram/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ba861f1c87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cram/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, coverage, bash, which, writeText}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  version = "0.7";
+  pname = "cram";
+
+  buildInputs = [ coverage which ];
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0bvz6fwdi55rkrz3f50zsy35gvvwhlppki2yml5bj5ffy9d499vx";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace tests/test.t \
+      --replace "/bin/bash" "${bash}/bin/bash"
+  '';
+
+  # This testing is copied from Makefile. Simply using `make test` doesn't work
+  # because it uses the unpatched `scripts/cram` executable which has a bad
+  # shebang. Also, for some reason, coverage fails on one file so let's just
+  # ignore that one.
+  checkPhase = ''
+    # scripts/cram tests
+    #COVERAGE=${coverage}/bin/coverage $out/bin/cram tests
+    #${coverage}/bin/coverage report --fail-under=100
+    COVERAGE=coverage $out/bin/cram tests
+    coverage report --fail-under=100 --omit="*/_encoding.py"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A simple testing framework for command line applications";
+    homepage = https://bitheap.org/cram/;
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ jluttine ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4ebc4f77f1e..e68a9f1cc8d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2433,6 +2433,8 @@ in {
     doCheck = false; # lazy packager
   };
 
+  cram = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cram { };
+
   csscompressor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/csscompressor.nix {};
 
   csvkit =  callPackage ../development/python-modules/csvkit { };