diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages-generated.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages-generated.nix
index e7308e2b8164..29a9bc91a1ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages-generated.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages-generated.nix
@@ -5349,5 +5349,26 @@ in
   };
 
 
+  "xlrd" = self."xlrd-0.9.2";
+
+  "xlrd-0.9.2" = self.buildPythonPackage {
+    name = "xlrd-0.9.2";
+    src = fetchurl {
+        url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xlrd/xlrd-0.9.2.tar.gz";
+        md5 = "91a81ee76233e9f3115acaaa1b251b0e";
+    };
+    doCheck = false;
+    buildInputs = [  ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [  ];
+    installCommand = ''easy_install --always-unzip --prefix="$out" .'';
+    meta = {
+      description = ''
+        Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files
+        '';
+      homepage = "http://www.python-excel.org/";
+      license = "BSD";
+    };
+  };
+
 }
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.json b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.json
index aefd911a5583..b5b7afab85b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.json
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.json
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@
   { "name": "psycopg2",
     "buildInputs": [ "pkgs.postgresql" ],
     "doCheck": false
+  },
+  { "name": "xlrd",
+    "doCheck": false
   }
-
 ]