diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nestedtext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nestedtext/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1fbfde7b26a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nestedtext/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
+, inform
+, pytestCheckHook
+, docopt
+, natsort
+, voluptuous
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "nestedtext";
+  version = "1.2";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "KenKundert";
+    repo = "nestedtext";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+    sha256 = "1dwks5apghg29aj90nc4qm0chk195jh881297zr1wk7mqd2n159y";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ inform ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook docopt natsort voluptuous ];
+  pytestFlagsArray = [ "--ignore=build" ]; # Avoids an ImportMismatchError.
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A human friendly data format";
+    longDescription = ''
+      NestedText is a file format for holding data that is to be entered,
+      edited, or viewed by people. It allows data to be organized into a nested
+      collection of dictionaries, lists, and strings. In this way it is similar
+      to JSON, YAML and TOML, but without the complexity and risk of YAML and
+      without the syntactic clutter of JSON and TOML. NestedText is both simple
+      and natural. Only a small number of concepts and rules must be kept in
+      mind when creating it. It is easily created, modified, or viewed with a
+      text editor and easily understood and used by both programmers and
+      non-programmers.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://nestedtext.org";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jeremyschlatter ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6ae48a44d63..beb4b050d6c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3978,6 +3978,8 @@ in {
 
   nest-asyncio = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nest-asyncio { };
 
+  nestedtext = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nestedtext { };
+
   netaddr = callPackage ../development/python-modules/netaddr { };
 
   netcdf4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/netcdf4 { };