diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/py_stringmatching/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/py_stringmatching/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3931078c12e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/py_stringmatching/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, numpy
+, six
+, nose
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "py_stringmatching";
+  version = "0.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0rjsx7iipn6svki21lmsza7b0dz9vkgmix696zryiv7gkhblqyb4";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+   
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy six ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A Python string matching library including string tokenizers and string similarity measures";
+    homepage =  https://sites.google.com/site/anhaidgroup/projects/magellan/py_stringmatching;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ixxie ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 592b96b4de4..2fda7395b43 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ in {
 
   Pmw = callPackage ../development/python-modules/Pmw { };
 
+  py_stringmatching = callPackage ../development/python-modules/py_stringmatching { };
+
   pyaes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyaes { };
 
   pyamf = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyamf { };