diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pelican/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pelican/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..72901881b039
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pelican/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, isPy26
+, glibcLocales, pandoc, git
+, mock, nose, markdown, lxml, typogrify
+, jinja2, pygments, docutils, pytz, unidecode, six, dateutil, feedgenerator
+, blinker, pillow, beautifulsoup4, markupsafe }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "pelican-${version}";
+  version = "3.7.1";
+  disabled = isPy26;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "getpelican";
+    repo = "pelican";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0nkxrb77k2bra7bqckg7f5k73wk98hcbz7rimxl8sw05b2bvd62g";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    python -Wd -m unittest discover
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    glibcLocales
+    pandoc
+    git
+    mock
+    nose
+    markdown
+    typogrify
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    jinja2 pygments docutils pytz unidecode six dateutil feedgenerator
+    blinker pillow beautifulsoup4 markupsafe lxml
+  ];
+
+  postPatch= ''
+    substituteInPlace pelican/tests/test_pelican.py \
+      --replace "'git'" "'${git}/bin/git'"
+  '';
+
+  LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A tool to generate a static blog from reStructuredText or Markdown input files";
+    homepage = "http://getpelican.com/";
+    license = licenses.agpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline prikhi garbas ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 51d72d0508fd..7da7f2a51dea 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -17870,54 +17870,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  pelican = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pelican-${version}";
-    version = "3.7.1";
-    disabled = isPy26;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "getpelican";
-      repo = "pelican";
-      rev = version;
-      sha256 = "0nkxrb77k2bra7bqckg7f5k73wk98hcbz7rimxl8sw05b2bvd62g";
-    };
-
-    doCheck = true;
-
-    # https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2004#issuecomment-247610716
-    checkPhase = ''
-      ${python.interpreter} -Wd -m unittest discover
-    '';
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [
-      pkgs.glibcLocales
-      pkgs.pandoc
-      pkgs.git
-      mock
-      nose
-      markdown
-      beautifulsoup4
-      lxml
-      typogrify
-    ];
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [
-      jinja2 pygments docutils pytz unidecode six dateutil feedgenerator
-      blinker pillow beautifulsoup4 markupsafe lxml
-    ];
-
-    postPatch= ''
-      sed -i -e "s|'git'|'${pkgs.git}/bin/git'|" pelican/tests/test_pelican.py
-    '';
-
-    LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8";
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A tool to generate a static blog from reStructuredText or Markdown input files";
-      homepage = "http://getpelican.com/";
-      license = licenses.agpl3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline prikhi garbas ];
-    };
+  pelican = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pelican {
+    inherit (pkgs) glibcLocales pandoc git;
   };
 
   pep8 = buildPythonPackage rec {