diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/eventlet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/eventlet/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..afc880b2ba28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/eventlet/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, nose
+, httplib2
+, pyopenssl
+, greenlet
+, enum-compat
+, isPyPy
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "eventlet";
+  version = "0.20.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "15bq5ybbigxnp5xwkps53zyhlg15lmcnq3ny2dppj0r0bylcs5rf";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ nose httplib2 pyopenssl ];
+
+  doCheck = false;  # too much transient errors to bother
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ enum-compat ]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optionals (!isPyPy) [ greenlet ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eventlet/;
+    description = "A concurrent networking library for Python";
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d52085fdc20f..55213482b0cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2356,28 +2356,7 @@ in {
 
   et_xmlfile = callPackage ../development/python-modules/et_xmlfile { };
 
-  eventlet = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    pname = "eventlet";
-    version = "0.20.0";
-    name = "${pname}-${version}";
-
-    src = fetchPypi {
-      inherit pname version;
-      sha256 = "15bq5ybbigxnp5xwkps53zyhlg15lmcnq3ny2dppj0r0bylcs5rf";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ nose httplib2 pyopenssl  ];
-
-    doCheck = false;  # too much transient errors to bother
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = optionals (!isPyPy) [ self.greenlet ] ++
-      (with self; [ enum-compat ]) ;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eventlet/;
-      description = "A concurrent networking library for Python";
-    };
-  };
+  eventlet = callPackage ../development/python-modules/eventlet { };
 
   exifread = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "ExifRead-2.1.2";