diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_taggit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_taggit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..276097802e70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django_taggit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pythonOlder
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "django-taggit";
+  version = "0.17.0";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "2.7";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1xy4mm1y6z6bpakw907859wz7fiw7jfm586dj89w0ggdqlb0767b";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "django-taggit is a reusable Django application for simple tagging";
+    homepage = https://github.com/alex/django-taggit/tree/master/;
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c44cc1185a1e..c2444cd878a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2312,25 +2312,7 @@ in {
 
   django_silk = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django_silk { };
 
-  django_taggit = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "django-taggit-${version}";
-    version = "0.17.0";
-    disabled = pythonOlder "2.7";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/d/django-taggit/django-taggit-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1xy4mm1y6z6bpakw907859wz7fiw7jfm586dj89w0ggdqlb0767b";
-    };
-
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "django-taggit is a reusable Django application for simple tagging";
-      homepage = https://github.com/alex/django-taggit/tree/master/;
-      license = licenses.bsd2;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
-    };
-  };
+  django_taggit = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django_taggit { };
 
   django_treebeard = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "django-treebeard-${version}";