diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-unshare/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-unshare/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e6425c30047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-unshare/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "python-unshare";
+  # pypi version doesn't support Python 3 and the package didn't update for a long time:
+  # https://github.com/TheTincho/python-unshare/pull/8
+  version = "unstable-2018-05-20";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "TheTincho";
+    repo = "python-unshare";
+    rev = "4e98c177bdeb24c5dcfcd66c457845a776bbb75c";
+    sha256 = "1h9biinhy5m7r2cj4abhvsg2hb6xjny3n2dxnj1336zpa082ys3h";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python bindings for the Linux unshare() syscall";
+    homepage    = "https://github.com/thetincho/python-unshare";
+    license     = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index daf9f5e70cf..f319bdf7b11 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3528,6 +3528,8 @@ in {
 
   python-Levenshtein = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-levenshtein { };
 
+  python-unshare = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-unshare { };
+
   fs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fs { };
 
   fs-s3fs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fs-s3fs { };