diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bfabf4376e7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/csvkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage,
+  dateutil, dbf, xlrd, sqlalchemy, openpyxl,
+ agate-excel, agate-dbf, agate-sql, isPy3k }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "${pname}-${version}";
+    pname = "csvkit";
+    version = "1.0.2";
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "05vfsba9nwh4islszgs18rq8sjkpzqni0cdwvvkw7pi0r63pz2as";
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ dateutil dbf xlrd sqlalchemy openpyxl
+      agate-excel agate-dbf agate-sql ];
+
+    doCheck = !isPy3k;
+    # (only) python 3 we had 9 failures and 57 errors out of a much larger
+    # number of tests.
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "A library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats";
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vrthra ];
+      license = with licenses; [ mit ];
+      homepage = https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit;
+    };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e08b0d502ad0..554e5ac468cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2433,29 +2433,7 @@ in {
 
   csscompressor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/csscompressor.nix {};
 
-  csvkit = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "csvkit-${version}";
-    version = "1.0.2";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/c/csvkit/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "05vfsba9nwh4islszgs18rq8sjkpzqni0cdwvvkw7pi0r63pz2as";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ dateutil dbf xlrd sqlalchemy openpyxl
-      agate-excel agate-dbf agate-sql ];
-
-    doCheck = false;
-    # (only) python 3 we had 9 failures and 57 errors out of a much larger
-    # number of tests.
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats";
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vrthra ];
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      homepage = "https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit";
-    };
-  };
+  csvkit =  callPackage ../development/python-modules/csvkit { };
 
   cx_Freeze = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "cx_freeze-${version}";