diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-toolbelt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-toolbelt/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e7834e62b829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-toolbelt/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, requests
+, betamax
+, mock
+, pytest
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "requests-toolbelt";
+  version = "0.8.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "f6a531936c6fa4c6cfce1b9c10d5c4f498d16528d2a54a22ca00011205a187b5";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ betamax mock pytest ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    py.test tests
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A toolbelt of useful classes and functions to be used with python-requests";
+    homepage = http://toolbelt.rtfd.org;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ matthiasbeyer jgeerds ];
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b0835ad5c1ca..432cf5ea5261 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -18430,26 +18430,8 @@ in {
 
   requests_oauthlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/requests-oauthlib.nix { };
 
-  requests_toolbelt = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.7.1";
-    name = "requests-toolbelt-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/sigmavirus24/requests-toolbelt/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "16grklnbgcfwqj3f39gw7fc9afi7xlp9gm7x8w6mi81dzhdxf50y";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests ];
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ betamax mock pytest ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A toolbelt of useful classes and functions to be used with python-requests";
-      homepage = http://toolbelt.rtfd.org;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ matthiasbeyer jgeerds ];
-    };
-
-  };
+  requests-toolbelt = callPackage ../development/python-modules/requests-toolbelt { };
+  requests_toolbelt = self.requests-toolbelt; # Old attr, 2017-09-26
 
   retry_decorator = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "retry_decorator-1.0.0";