diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tablib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tablib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9f1bf2390b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tablib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, stdenv, fetchPypi, pytest, unicodecsv, pandas
+, xlwt, openpyxl, pyyaml, xlrd, odfpy, fetchpatch
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "tablib";
+  version = "0.12.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "11wxchj0qz77dn79yiq30k4b4gsm429f4bizk4lm4rb63nk51kxq";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest unicodecsv pandas ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ xlwt openpyxl pyyaml xlrd odfpy ];
+
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/commit/0e51a2d0944022af186d2dcd34c0ab3c47141ba5.patch";
+      sha256 = "0lbbl871zdn5vpgqyjkil0c2ap3b5hz19rmihhyvrx7m4mlh1aij";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Tablib: format-agnostic tabular dataset library";
+    homepage = http://python-tablib.org;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c5ab8def731..d5ca8609858 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2652,22 +2652,7 @@ in {
 
   pyunifi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyunifi { };
 
-  tablib = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "tablib-${version}";
-    version = "0.12.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/t/tablib/tablib-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "11wxchj0qz77dn79yiq30k4b4gsm429f4bizk4lm4rb63nk51kxq";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pytest unicodecsv pandas ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ xlwt openpyxl pyyaml xlrd odfpy ];
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "Tablib: format-agnostic tabular dataset library";
-      homepage = "http://python-tablib.org";
-    };
-  };
+  tablib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tablib { };
 
   wakeonlan = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wakeonlan { };