diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/genzshcomp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/genzshcomp/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..87ca3aaeff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/genzshcomp/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, setuptools
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "genzshcomp";
+  version = "0.5.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "c77d007cc32cdff836ecf8df6192371767976c108a75b055e057bb6f4a09cd42";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ setuptools ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Automatically generated zsh completion function for Python's option parser modules";
+    homepage = http://bitbucket.org/hhatto/genzshcomp/;
+    license = licenses.bsd0;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 592d9536959..fe9ab57c20f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2374,22 +2374,7 @@ in {
 
   gevent-websocket = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gevent-websocket { };
 
-  genzshcomp = buildPythonPackage {
-    name = "genzshcomp-0.5.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/g/genzshcomp/genzshcomp-0.5.1.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "c77d007cc32cdff836ecf8df6192371767976c108a75b055e057bb6f4a09cd42";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ setuptools ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Automatically generated zsh completion function for Python's option parser modules";
-      license = "BSD";
-    };
-  };
-
+  genzshcomp = callPackage ../development/python-modules/genzshcomp { };
 
   gflags = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gflags { };