diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/simpleeval/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/simpleeval/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cd77f66b56eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/simpleeval/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ lib, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "simpleeval-${version}";
+  version = "0.9.5";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/s/simpleeval/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0sda13bqg9l4j17iczmfanxbzsg6fm9aw8i3crzsjfxx51rwj1i3";
+  };
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/danthedeckie/simpleeval";
+    description = "A simple, safe single expression evaluator library";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ johbo ];
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4e429ff4c2aa..09e9b1e23345 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ in {
 
   rhpl = if !isPy3k then callPackage ../development/python-modules/rhpl {} else throw "rhpl not supported for interpreter ${python.executable}";
 
+  simpleeval = callPackage ../development/python-modules/simpleeval { };
+
   sip = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sip { };
 
   tables = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tables {