diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/shutilwhich/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/shutilwhich/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d88141c8b358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/shutilwhich/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pytest
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "shutilwhich";
+  version = "1.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mbr";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "05fwcjn86w8wprck04iv1zccfi39skdf0lhwpb4b9gpvklyc9mj0";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest -rs
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Backport of shutil.which";
+    license = licenses.psfl;
+    homepage = https://github.com/mbr/shutilwhich;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ multun ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 5d64b07a74f2..45623361fcb4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5225,6 +5225,8 @@ in {
 
   shippai = callPackage ../development/python-modules/shippai {};
 
+  shutilwhich = callPackage ../development/python-modules/shutilwhich { };
+
   simanneal = callPackage ../development/python-modules/simanneal { };
 
   simplegeneric = callPackage ../development/python-modules/simplegeneric { };