diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..04e2c2f08185
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchurl
+, isPyPy
+, pkgs
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pyuv";
+  version = "1.2.0";
+  disabled = isPyPy;  # see https://github.com/saghul/pyuv/issues/49
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/saghul/pyuv/archive/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "19yl1l5l6dq1xr8xcv6dhx1avm350nr4v2358iggcx4ma631rycx";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ ./pyuv-external-libuv.patch ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgs.libuv ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python interface for libuv";
+    homepage = https://github.com/saghul/pyuv;
+    repositories.git = git://github.com/saghul/pyuv.git;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv-external-libuv.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv/pyuv-external-libuv.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv-external-libuv.patch
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/pyuv/pyuv-external-libuv.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4dc96f898ba3..650eab1cdd8e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4077,26 +4077,7 @@ in {
 
   user-agents = callPackage ../development/python-modules/user-agents { };
 
-  pyuv = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pyuv-1.2.0";
-    disabled = isPyPy;  # see https://github.com/saghul/pyuv/issues/49
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/saghul/pyuv/archive/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "19yl1l5l6dq1xr8xcv6dhx1avm350nr4v2358iggcx4ma631rycx";
-    };
-
-    patches = [ ../development/python-modules/pyuv-external-libuv.patch ];
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.libuv ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python interface for libuv";
-      homepage = https://github.com/saghul/pyuv;
-      repositories.git = git://github.com/saghul/pyuv.git;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  };
+  pyuv = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyuv { };
 
   vega_datasets = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vega_datasets { };