diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hexdump/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hexdump/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..75da23e9859b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hexdump/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "hexdump";
+  version = "3.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "sha256-14GkOwwWrOP5Nmqt5z6K06e9UTfVjwtFqy0/VIdvINs=";
+    extension = "zip";
+  };
+
+  # the source zip has no prefix, so everything gets unpacked to /build otherwise
+  sourceRoot = "source";
+  unpackPhase = ''
+    runHook preUnpack
+    mkdir source
+    pushd source
+    unzip $src
+    popd
+    runHook postUnpack
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "hexdump" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Library to dump binary data to hex format and restore from there";
+    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/hexdump/"; # BitBucket site returns 404
+    license = licenses.publicDomain;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ frogamic sbruder ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 7efc91541c7d..8c0f9fcb5954 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4089,6 +4089,8 @@ in {
 
   hexbytes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hexbytes { };
 
+  hexdump = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hexdump { };
+
   hg-commitsigs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hg-commitsigs { };
 
   hg-evolve = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hg-evolve { };