diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/diff-match-patch/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diff-match-patch/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7907f1ffac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diff-match-patch/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "diff-match-patch";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  version = "20121119";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/;
+    description = "Diff, Match and Patch libraries for Plain Text";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0k1f3v8nbidcmmrk65m7h8v41jqi37653za9fcs96y7jzc8mdflx";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index cc0712468ad..15ceba80199 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ in {
 
   distorm3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/distorm3 { };
 
+  diff-match-patch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/diff-match-patch { };
+
   h5py = callPackage ../development/python-modules/h5py {
     hdf5 = pkgs.hdf5;
   };