diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyee/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyee/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b2f4560d35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyee/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, lib, vcversioner, pytestrunner, mock, pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-trio, twisted, zipp, pyparsing, pyhamcrest, futures, attrs, stdenv, isPy27 }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pyee";
+  version = "7.0.4";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "105n8jzw8vy6cm8mm5sm86mwyaqqr8zjh8w9xvcb7hp29p0vrihm";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    vcversioner
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    mock
+    pyhamcrest
+    pytest
+    pytest-asyncio
+    pytest-trio
+    pytestrunner
+    twisted
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional isPy27 [
+    attrs
+    futures
+    pyparsing
+    zipp
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A port of Node.js's EventEmitter to python";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jfhbrook/pyee";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ kmein ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0b5f211684e..1e196bd0c82 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4984,6 +4984,8 @@ in {
 
   pyechonest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyechonest { };
 
+  pyee = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyee { };
+
   pyelftools = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyelftools { };
 
   pyemd = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyemd { };