diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/boltons/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/boltons/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..655af7c66f2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/boltons/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "boltons";
+  version = "2019-01-07";
+
+  # No tests in PyPi Tarball
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mahmoud";
+    repo = "boltons";
+    rev = "3584ac9399f227a2a11b74153140ee171fd49783";
+    sha256 = "13xngjw249sk4vmr5kqqnia0npw0kpa0gm020a4dqid0cjyvj0rv";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+  checkPhase = "pytest tests";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons;
+    description = "220+ constructs, recipes, and snippets extending (and relying on nothing but) the Python standard library";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Boltons is a set of over 220 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
+      in the same spirit as — and yet conspicuously missing from — the
+      standard library, including:
+
+      - Atomic file saving, bolted on with fileutils
+      - A highly-optimized OrderedMultiDict, in dictutils
+      - Two types of PriorityQueue, in queueutils
+      - Chunked and windowed iteration, in iterutils
+      - Recursive data structure iteration and merging, with iterutils.remap
+      - Exponential backoff functionality, including jitter, through
+      iterutils.backoff
+      - A full-featured TracebackInfo type, for representing stack
+      traces, in tbutils
+    '';
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ twey ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d0d12d2ca729..af0f255b05cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ in {
 
   blivet = callPackage ../development/python-modules/blivet { };
 
+  boltons = callPackage ../development/python-modules/boltons { };
+
   breathe = callPackage ../development/python-modules/breathe { };
 
   brotli = callPackage ../development/python-modules/brotli { };