diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandocfilters/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandocfilters/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3a815e997c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandocfilters/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec{
+  version = "1.4.1";
+  pname = "pandocfilters";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "ec8bcd100d081db092c57f93462b1861bcfa1286ef126f34da5cb1d969538acd";
+  };
+
+  # No tests available
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A python module for writing pandoc filters, with a collection of examples";
+    homepage = https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index bf5537f858b..f7e27e39b89 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4545,25 +4545,7 @@ in {
 
   scrapy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/scrapy { };
 
-  pandocfilters = buildPythonPackage rec{
-    version = "1.4.1";
-    pname = "pandocfilters";
-    name = pname + "-${version}";
-
-    src = fetchPypi{
-      inherit pname version;
-      sha256 = "ec8bcd100d081db092c57f93462b1861bcfa1286ef126f34da5cb1d969538acd";
-    };
-    # No tests available
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A python module for writing pandoc filters, with a collection of examples";
-      homepage = https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [];
-    };
-  };
+  pandocfilters = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pandocfilters { };
 
   htmltreediff = callPackage ../development/python-modules/htmltreediff { };