diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/envs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/envs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7b6159d0e616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/envs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
+, click, jinja2, terminaltables }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "envs";
+  version = "1.2.4";
+
+  # move to fetchPyPi when https://github.com/capless/envs/issues/8 is fixed
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "capless";
+    repo   = "envs";
+    rev    = "e1f6cbad7f20316fc44324d2c50826d57c2817a8";
+    sha256 = "0p88a79amj0jxll3ssq1dzg78y7zwgc8yqyr7cf53nv2i7kmpakv";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ click jinja2 terminaltables ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Easy access to environment variables from Python";
+    homepage = https://github.com/capless/envs;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e572eaefb2eb..1193189f6f94 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1646,6 +1646,8 @@ in {
 
   curtsies = callPackage ../development/python-modules/curtsies { };
 
+  envs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/envs { };
+
   jsonrpc-async = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jsonrpc-async { };
 
   jsonrpc-base = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jsonrpc-base { };