diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ordereddict/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ordereddict/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..27bdd728bbe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ordereddict/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ordereddict";
+  version = "1.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "07qvy11nvgxpzarrni3wrww3vpc9yafgi2bch4j2vvvc42nb8d8w";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A drop-in substitute for Py2.7's new collections.OrderedDict that works in Python 2.4-2.6";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ garbas ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 92da550b7cdb..322096dcb3cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2996,21 +2996,7 @@ in {
 
   opentimestamps = callPackage ../development/python-modules/opentimestamps { };
 
-  ordereddict = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "ordereddict-${version}";
-    version = "1.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/o/ordereddict/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "07qvy11nvgxpzarrni3wrww3vpc9yafgi2bch4j2vvvc42nb8d8w";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A drop-in substitute for Py2.7's new collections.OrderedDict that works in Python 2.4-2.6";
-      license = licenses.bsd3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ garbas ];
-    };
-  };
+  ordereddict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ordereddict { };
 
   orderedset = callPackage ../development/python-modules/orderedset { };