diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypandoc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypandoc/default.nix
index 2b2793e535e8..87cfe2708dfd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypandoc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypandoc/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
-{ lib, substituteAll, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
-, pandoc, pandocfilters, texlive
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pandoc
+, pandocfilters
+, pythonOlder
+, substituteAll
+, texlive
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pypandoc";
   version = "1.10";
 
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "JessicaTegner";
     repo = pname;
@@ -27,6 +35,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pandocfilters
   ];
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "pypandoc"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Thin wrapper for pandoc";
     homepage = "https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc";