diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydot/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydot/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38123acd32ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydot/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, chardet
+, pyparsing
+, graphviz
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pydot";
+  version = "1.2.3";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "edb5d3f249f97fbd9c4bb16959e61bc32ecf40eee1a9f6d27abe8d01c0a73502";
+  };
+  checkInputs = [ chardet ];
+  # No tests in archive
+  doCheck = false;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [pyparsing graphviz];
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/erocarrera/pydot;
+    description = "Allows to easily create both directed and non directed graphs from Python";
+    licenses = with lib.licenses; [ mit ];
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f2a6eab2d23d..73cee10e8732 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -19838,20 +19838,7 @@ in {
     };
    });
 
-  pydot = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pydot-1.2.3";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/pydot/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "edb5d3f249f97fbd9c4bb16959e61bc32ecf40eee1a9f6d27abe8d01c0a73502";
-    };
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [pyparsing pkgs.graphviz];
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://github.com/erocarrera/pydot;
-      description = "Allows to easily create both directed and non directed graphs from Python";
-    };
-  };
+  pydot = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydot { };
 
   pydot_ng = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pydot_ng-1.0.0";