diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libplist/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libplist/default.nix
index 0b9b7bd2f54..4de5a23569e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libplist/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libplist/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, swig2, python, glib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, swig2, python2Packages, glib }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+let
+  inherit (python2Packages) python cython;
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libplist-1.12";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig swig2 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig swig2 python cython  ];
 
   #patches = [ ./swig.patch ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libxml2 glib python ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libxml2 glib ];
 
   passthru.swig = swig2;
 
+  outputs = ["out" "dev" "bin" "py"];
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    moveToOutput "lib/${python.libPrefix}" "$py"
+  '';
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "1gj4nv0bvdm5y2sqm2vj2rn44k67ahw3mh6q614qq4nyngfdxzqf";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c998001b587..86077665670 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13530,6 +13530,9 @@ in {
     clblas = pkgs.clblas-cuda;
   };
 
+  libplist = if isPy3k then throw "libplist not supported for interpreter ${python.executable}" else
+    (pkgs.libplist.override{python2Packages=self; }).py;
+
   libxml2 = if isPy3k then throw "libxml2 not supported for interpreter ${python.executable}" else
     (pkgs.libxml2.override{pythonSupport=true; python2=python;}).py;