diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/contextlib2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/contextlib2/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cadaa8914b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/contextlib2/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "contextlib2";
+  version = "0.5.5";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi rec {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "509f9419ee91cdd00ba34443217d5ca51f5a364a404e1dce9e8979cea969ca48";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Backports and enhancements for the contextlib module";
+    homepage = http://contextlib2.readthedocs.org/;
+    license = lib.licenses.psfl;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index dca008eee60..19199c13626 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3178,15 +3178,7 @@ in {
   };
 
 
-  contextlib2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "contextlib2-${version}";
-    version = "0.5.3";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl rec {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/c/contextlib2/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "01k2921labkbn28kw60jmqzvr4nxzfnx4vcsyjb3rir177qh1r9h";
-    };
-  };
+  contextlib2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/contextlib2 { };
 
   cookiecutter = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "1.4.0";