diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/base.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/base.nix
index 9fc1111c7b9..b7ab5fa70d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/base.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/base.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 , oceSupport ? false, opencascade
 , withOCCT ? true, opencascade-occt
 , ngspiceSupport ? true, libngspice
-, scriptingSupport ? true, swig, python, pythonPackages, wxPython
+, scriptingSupport ? true, swig, python, wxPython
 , debug ? false, valgrind
 , withI18n ? true
 }:
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/default.nix
index 2aa2686a29a..a99f1b2d8d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/kicad/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 , oceSupport ? false, opencascade
 , withOCCT ? true, opencascade-occt
 , ngspiceSupport ? true, libngspice
-, scriptingSupport ? true, swig, python3, python3Packages
+, scriptingSupport ? true, swig, python3
 , debug ? false, valgrind
 , with3d ? true
 , withI18n ? true
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ let
     # but brings high DPI support?
     else wxGTK31.override { withGtk2 = false; };
 
-  pythonPackages = python3Packages;
+  pythonPackages = python.pkgs;
   python = python3;
-  wxPython = python3Packages.wxPython_4_0;
+  wxPython = pythonPackages.wxPython_4_0;
 
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0856ec5cf10..86339e361cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3036,6 +3036,10 @@ in {
 
   jsonwatch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jsonwatch { };
 
+  kicad = disabledIf isPy27 (toPythonModule (pkgs.kicad.override {
+    python3 = python;
+  }).src);
+
   latexcodec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/latexcodec {};
 
   libmodulemd = pipe pkgs.libmodulemd [