diff --git a/pkgs/tools/pydb/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/pydb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..07d9545529b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/pydb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+args:
+args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "pydb-1.26";
+
+  src = args.fetchurl {
+    url =  "mirror://sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bashdb/pydb-1.26.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1wlkz1hd5d4gkzhkjkzcm650c1lchj28hj36jx96mklglm41h4q1";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =(with args; [python emacs /* emacs is optional */]);
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    p="$(toPythonPath $out)"
+    configureFlags="$configureFlags --with-python=${args.python}/bin/python --with-site-packages=$p"
+  '';
+
+  meta = { 
+      description = "python debugger with gdb like commands and emacs bindings";
+      homepage = http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/pydb/;
+      license = "GPLv3";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a0a085581e9..3f9a7a1aa49 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1145,6 +1145,10 @@ let
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
   };
 
+  pydb = import ../tools/pydb {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv python emacs;
+  };
+
   pystringtemplate = import ../development/python-modules/stringtemplate {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl python antlr;
   };