diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpydoc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpydoc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3af324c8765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpydoc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, nose
+, sphinx
+, jinja2
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "numpydoc";
+  version = "0.7.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname;
+    inherit version;
+    sha256 = "2dc7b2c4e3914745e38e370946fa4c109817331e6d450806285c08bce5cd575a";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sphinx jinja2 ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc";
+    license = lib.licenses.free;
+   };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0eebd578c3a..8efafc260c4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -11430,25 +11430,7 @@ in {
     blas = pkgs.openblasCompat;
   };
 
-  numpydoc = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    pname = "numpydoc";
-    name = "${pname}-${version}";
-    version = "0.6.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/${builtins.substring 0 1 pname}/${pname}/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1ec573e91f6d868a9940d90a6599f3e834a2d6c064030fbe078d922ee21dcfa1";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [ self.nose ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ self.sphinx self.matplotlib ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc";
-      license = licenses.free;
-    };
-  };
+  numpydoc = callPackage ../development/python-modules/numpydoc { };
 
   numpy-stl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/numpy-stl { };