diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docutils/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c31cfceebbaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docutils/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib
+, fetchurl
+, buildPythonPackage
+, isPy3k
+, python
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "docutils";
+  version = "0.14";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/docutils/${pname}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0x22fs3pdmr42kvz6c654756wja305qv6cx1zbhwlagvxgr4xrji";
+  };
+
+  checkPhase = if isPy3k then ''
+    ${python.interpreter} test3/alltests.py
+  '' else ''
+    ${python.interpreter} test/alltests.py
+  '';
+
+  # Create symlinks lacking a ".py" suffix, many programs depend on these names
+  postFixup = ''
+    (cd $out/bin && for f in *.py; do
+      ln -s $f $(echo $f | sed -e 's/\.py$//')
+    done)
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Docutils -- Python Documentation Utilities";
+    homepage = http://docutils.sourceforge.net/;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ garbas AndersonTorres ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c2a1237e4e97..8e9ff72c752d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ in {
 
   distorm3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/distorm3 { };
 
+  docutils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/docutils { };
+
   dogtail = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dogtail { };
 
   diff-match-patch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/diff-match-patch { };
@@ -5006,37 +5008,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-
-  docutils = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "docutils-${version}";
-    version = "0.14";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/docutils/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0x22fs3pdmr42kvz6c654756wja305qv6cx1zbhwlagvxgr4xrji";
-    };
-
-    checkPhase = if isPy3k then ''
-      ${python.interpreter} test3/alltests.py
-    '' else ''
-      ${python.interpreter} test/alltests.py
-    '';
-
-    # Create symlinks lacking a ".py" suffix, many programs depend on these names
-    postFixup = ''
-      (cd $out/bin && for f in *.py; do
-        ln -s $f $(echo $f | sed -e 's/\.py$//')
-      done)
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "An open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX";
-      homepage = http://docutils.sourceforge.net/;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ garbas AndersonTorres ];
-    };
-  };
-
-
   dtopt = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "dtopt-0.1";