diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a17fd0f1d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, nose
+, mock
+, webtest
+, sqlalchemy
+, pycrypto
+, isPy27
+, funcsigs
+, pycryptopp
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "Beaker";
+  version = "1.8.0";
+
+  # The pypy release do not contains the tests
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "bbangert";
+    repo = "beaker";
+    rev = "${version}";
+    sha256 = "17yfr7a307n8rdl09was4j60xqk2s0hk0hywdkigrpj4qnw0is7g";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ nose
+      mock
+      webtest
+    ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    sqlalchemy
+    pycrypto
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (isPy27) [
+    funcsigs
+    pycryptopp
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A Session and Caching library with WSGI Middleware";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ garbas domenkozar ];
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b0ae8a1e41a..e68c11028ef 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -937,37 +937,7 @@ in {
 
   beautifulsoup4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/beautifulsoup4 { };
 
-  beaker = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "Beaker-${version}";
-    version = "1.8.0";
-
-    # The pypy release do not contains the tests
-    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "bbangert";
-      repo = "beaker";
-      rev = "${version}";
-      sha256 = "17yfr7a307n8rdl09was4j60xqk2s0hk0hywdkigrpj4qnw0is7g";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs =
-      [ self.nose
-        self.mock
-        self.webtest
-      ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [
-      self.sqlalchemy
-      self.pycrypto
-    ] ++ optionals (isPy27) [
-      self.funcsigs
-      self.pycryptopp
-    ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Session and Caching library with WSGI Middleware";
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ garbas domenkozar ];
-      platforms = platforms.all;
-    };
-  };
+  beaker = callPackage ../development/python-modules/beaker { };
 
   betamax = callPackage ../development/python-modules/betamax {};