diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/affinity/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/affinity/default.nix
index f2cb2ef6445..4eaaf56b441 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/affinity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/affinity/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
   pname = "affinity";
   version = "0.1.0";
+
+  # syntax error
+  disabled = isPy3k;
+
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     sha256 = "1i6j7kszvnzh5vh9k48cqwx2kzf73a6abgv9s6bf0j2zmfjl2wb6";
   };
+
   meta = {
     description = "control processor affinity on windows and linux";
     homepage    = http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/affinity;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix
index bfabf4376e7..badf33f8c12 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,38 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage,
-  dateutil, dbf, xlrd, sqlalchemy, openpyxl,
- agate-excel, agate-dbf, agate-sql, isPy3k }:
+{ lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, isPy3k
+, agate, agate-excel, agate-dbf, agate-sql, six
+, argparse, ordereddict, simplejson
+, glibcLocales, nose, mock, unittest2
+}:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "${pname}-${version}";
-    pname = "csvkit";
-    version = "1.0.2";
+  pname = "csvkit";
+  version = "1.0.2";
 
-    src = fetchPypi {
-      inherit pname version;
-      sha256 = "05vfsba9nwh4islszgs18rq8sjkpzqni0cdwvvkw7pi0r63pz2as";
-    };
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "05vfsba9nwh4islszgs18rq8sjkpzqni0cdwvvkw7pi0r63pz2as";
+  };
 
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ dateutil dbf xlrd sqlalchemy openpyxl
-      agate-excel agate-dbf agate-sql ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    agate agate-excel agate-dbf agate-sql six
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (!isPy3k) [
+    argparse ordereddict simplejson
+  ];
 
-    doCheck = !isPy3k;
-    # (only) python 3 we had 9 failures and 57 errors out of a much larger
-    # number of tests.
+  checkInputs = [
+    glibcLocales nose
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (!isPy3k) [
+    mock unittest2
+  ];
 
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "A library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats";
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vrthra ];
-      license = with licenses; [ mit ];
-      homepage = https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit;
-    };
+  checkPhase = ''
+    LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" nosetests -e test_csvsql
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vrthra ];
+    license = with licenses; [ mit ];
+    homepage = https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dj-database-url/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dj-database-url/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f334b7efeac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dj-database-url/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "dj-database-url";
+  version = "0.5.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "4aeaeb1f573c74835b0686a2b46b85990571159ffc21aa57ecd4d1e1cb334163";
+  };
+
+  # Tests access a DB via network
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Use Database URLs in your Django Application";
+    homepage = https://github.com/kennethreitz/dj-database-url;
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-polymorphic/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-polymorphic/default.nix
index 8cb68ed1e7d..2cd112d8150 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-polymorphic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-polymorphic/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, django }:
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, python, django, dj-database-url }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "django-polymorphic";
   version = "2.0.2";
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "e1821d7b5874509a158a0f22bebf544330e0944c481c5a3e6da6cac8887e4e88";
+  # PyPI tarball is missing some test files
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = pname;
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "18p84kdwpfp423vb2n38h840mj3bq0j57jx3cry7c8dznpi0vfi2";
   };
 
-  checkInputs = [ django ];
+  checkInputs = [ dj-database-url ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ django ];
 
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ${python.interpreter} runtests.py
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/django-polymorphic/django-polymorphic;
     description = "Improved Django model inheritance with automatic downcasting";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fonttools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fonttools/default.nix
index 28d4053888f..d7e789b02fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fonttools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fonttools/default.nix
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@
 , numpy
 , pytest
 , pytestrunner
+, glibcLocales
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "fonttools";
-  version = "3.23.0";
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  version = "3.24.0";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "9af97075be0395b631880a82ba88dcf694c8aa76b07a622bf5f650e8f8cff293";
+    sha256 = "d09126f443bc8797d1b7e76274e65f4c169c04722745953ecf536451b1d9a15f";
     extension = "zip";
   };
 
@@ -23,8 +23,13 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   checkInputs = [
     pytest
     pytestrunner
+    glibcLocales
   ];
 
+  preCheck = ''
+    export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools;
     description = "A library to manipulate font files from Python";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftputil/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftputil/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d3d338a2c8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftputil/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "3.4";
+  pname = "ftputil";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "374b01e174079e91babe2a462fbd6f6c00dbfbfa299dec04239ca4229fbf8762";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    touch Makefile
+    # Disable tests that require network access or access /home
+    py.test test \
+      -k "not test_public_servers and not test_real_ftp \
+          and not test_set_parser and not test_repr"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "High-level FTP client library (virtual file system and more)";
+    homepage    = http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/;
+    license     = licenses.bsd2; # "Modified BSD license, says pypi"
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ldappool/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ldappool/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..58ca72a3dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ldappool/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k
+, pbr, ldap, fixtures, testresources, testtools }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "ldappool-${version}";
+  version = "2.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    pname = "ldappool";
+    inherit version;
+    sha256 = "1akmzf51cjfvmd0nvvm562z1w9vq45zsx6fa72kraqgsgxhnrhqz";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pbr ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ ldap ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ fixtures testresources testtools ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A simple connector pool for python-ldap";
+    homepage = https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ldappool;
+    license = licenses.mpl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycups/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycups/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..28dff352e38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycups/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, cups, libiconv }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pycups";
+  version = "1.9.73";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/pycups/pycups-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "c381be011889ca6f728598578c89c8ac9f7ab1e95b614474df9f2fa831ae5335";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ cups ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin libiconv;
+
+  # Wants to connect to CUPS
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python bindings for libcups";
+    homepage = http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pycups/;
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2Plus ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 5dcfd9b348f..0de0d4c0f8e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4461,24 +4461,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  ftputil = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "3.3";
-    name = "ftputil-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/f/ftputil/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1714w0v6icw2xjx5m54yv2qgkq49qwxwllq4gdb7wkz25iiapr8b";
-    };
-
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "High-level FTP client library (virtual file system and more)";
-      homepage    = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftputil;
-      platforms   = platforms.linux;
-      license     = licenses.bsd2; # "Modified BSD license, says pypi"
-    };
-  };
+  ftputil = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ftputil { };
 
   fudge = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "fudge-1.1.0";
@@ -7093,6 +7076,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  dj-database-url = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dj-database-url { };
+
   djmail = callPackage ../development/python-modules/djmail { };
 
   pillowfight = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -11612,23 +11597,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  ldappool = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "ldappool-${version}";
-    version = "1.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/l/ldappool/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1akmzf51cjfvmd0nvvm562z1w9vq45zsx6fa72kraqgsgxhnrhqz";
-    };
-
-    # Judging from SyntaxError
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      homepage = "https://github.com/mozilla-services/ldappool";
-    };
-  };
-
+  ldappool = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ldappool { };
 
   lz4 = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "lz4-0.8.2";
@@ -13029,27 +12998,7 @@ in {
     };
   });
 
-  pycups = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pycups-${version}";
-    version = "1.9.73";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/pycups/pycups-${version}.tar.bz2";
-      sha256 = "c381be011889ca6f728598578c89c8ac9f7ab1e95b614474df9f2fa831ae5335";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [ pkgs.cups ];
-
-    # Wants to connect to CUPS
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python bindings for libcups";
-      homepage = http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pycups/;
-      license = with licenses; [ gpl2Plus ];
-    };
-
-  };
+  pycups = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pycups { };
 
   pycurl = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "pycurl-7.19.5.1";