diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/markdown/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/markdown/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..515dee0e7662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/markdown/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, nose
+, pyyaml
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "Markdown";
+  version = "2.6.10";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    extension = "zip";
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "cfa536d1ee8984007fcecc5a38a493ff05c174cb74cb2341dafd175e6bc30851";
+  };
+
+  # error: invalid command 'test'
+#   doCheck = false;
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose pyyaml ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support";
+    homepage = https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown;
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 05d9e5a4c3e0..248a739bc014 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10417,22 +10417,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  markdown = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "2.6.8";
-    name = "markdown-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/M/Markdown/Markdown-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0cqfhr1km2s5d8jm6hbwgkrrj9hvkjf2gab3s2axlrw1clgaij0a";
-    };
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown;
-    };
-  };
+  markdown = callPackage ../development/python-modules/markdown { };
 
   markdownsuperscript = callPackage ../development/python-modules/markdownsuperscript {};