diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/default.nix
index 4f360c831a25..9ff1799ddd2d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, python27Packages, file }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python27Packages, file }:
 
 let
   inherit (python27Packages) python;
+  requirements = (import ./requirements.nix {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl;
+    pythonPackages = python27Packages;
+  });
+
 in
   stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     name = "salut-a-toi";
@@ -13,12 +18,15 @@ in
       sha256 = "0kn9403n8fpzl0hsb9kkzicsmzq2fjl627l31yykbqzc4nsr780d";
     };
 
-    buildInputs = with python27Packages; 
+    buildInputs = with python27Packages;
     [
       python twisted urwid wxPython pygobject2
-      wokkel dbus-python pyfeed wrapPython setuptools file 
+      dbus-python wrapPython setuptools file
       pycrypto pyxdg
-    ];
+    ] ++  (with requirements; [
+      pyfeed
+      wokkel
+    ]);
 
     configurePhase = ''
       sed -i "/use_setuptools/d" setup.py
@@ -26,7 +34,7 @@ in
       sed -e "1aexport PATH=\"\$PATH\":\"$out/bin\":\"${python27Packages.twisted}/bin\"" -i src/sat.sh
       sed -e "1aexport PYTHONPATH=\"\$PYTHONPATHPATH\":\"$PYTHONPATH\":"$out/${python.sitePackages}"" -i src/sat.sh
 
-      echo 'import wokkel.muc' | python 
+      echo 'import wokkel.muc' | python
     '';
 
     buildPhase = ''
@@ -39,7 +47,7 @@ in
       for i in "$out/bin"/*; do
       head -n 1 "$i" | grep -E '[/ ]python( |$)' && {
         wrapProgram "$i" --prefix PYTHONPATH : "$PYTHONPATH:$out/${python.sitePackages}"
-      } || true 
+      } || true
       done
     '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/requirements.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/requirements.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1a6811182453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi/requirements.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+{ fetchurl
+, stdenv
+, pythonPackages
+}:
+
+let
+  buildPythonPackage = pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage;
+
+  xe = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    url = "http://www.blarg.net/%7Esteveha/xe-0.7.4.tar.gz";
+    name = stdenv.lib.nameFromURL url ".tar";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      inherit url;
+      sha256 = "0v9878cl0y9cczdsr6xjy8v9l139lc23h4m5f86p4kpf2wlnpi42";
+    };
+
+    # error: invalid command 'test'
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = "http://home.blarg.net/~steveha/xe.html";
+      description = "XML elements";
+    };
+  };
+
+in {
+
+  pyfeed = (buildPythonPackage rec {
+    url = "http://www.blarg.net/%7Esteveha/pyfeed-0.7.4.tar.gz";
+
+    name = stdenv.lib.nameFromURL url ".tar";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      inherit url;
+      sha256 = "1h4msq573m7wm46h3cqlx4rsn99f0l11rhdqgf50lv17j8a8vvy1";
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ xe ];
+
+    # error: invalid command 'test'
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      homepage = "http://home.blarg.net/~steveha/pyfeed.html";
+      description = "Tools for syndication feeds";
+    };
+
+  });
+
+  wokkel = buildPythonPackage (rec {
+    url = "http://wokkel.ik.nu/releases/0.7.0/wokkel-0.7.0.tar.gz";
+    name = stdenv.lib.nameFromURL url ".tar";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      inherit url;
+      sha256 = "0rnshrzw8605x05mpd8ndrx3ri8h6cx713mp8sl4f04f4gcrz8ml";
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [twisted dateutil];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Some (mainly XMPP-related) additions to twisted";
+      homepage = "http://wokkel.ik.nu/";
+      license = licenses.mit;
+    };
+  });
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/beautifulsoup.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/beautifulsoup.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..571df924e1f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/beautifulsoup.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ pythonPackages, isPy3k, pkgs }:
+
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "beautifulsoup-3.2.1";
+  disabled = isPy3k;
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/3.x/BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1nshbcpdn0jpcj51x0spzjp519pkmqz0n0748j7dgpz70zlqbfpm";
+  };
+
+  # error: invalid command 'test'
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/;
+    license = "bsd";
+    description = "Undemanding HTML/XML parser";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix
index f8cd1ab1d00b..c331c4f287e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, pythonPackages, gocr, unrar, rhino, spidermonkey }:
-pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, pythonPackages, gocr, unrar, rhino, spidermonkey
+, pkgs }:
+
+let
+  beautifulsoup = pythonPackages.callPackage ./beautifulsoup.nix {
+    inherit pythonPackages;
+  };
+
+in pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   version = "0.4.9-next";
   name = "pyLoad-" + version;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyfeed/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyfeed/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a1591037fb5a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyfeed/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl
-, xe }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  url = "http://www.blarg.net/%7Esteveha/pyfeed-0.7.4.tar.gz";
-
-  name = stdenv.lib.nameFromURL url ".tar";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    inherit url;
-    sha256 = "1h4msq573m7wm46h3cqlx4rsn99f0l11rhdqgf50lv17j8a8vvy1";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ xe ];
-
-  # error: invalid command 'test'
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    homepage = "http://home.blarg.net/~steveha/pyfeed.html";
-    description = "Tools for syndication feeds";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibacl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibacl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97fbe28e50d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibacl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pkgs
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pylibacl";
+  version = "0.5.3";
+  name = pname + "-" + version;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0c3xw1s5bh6jnsc0wwyxnn6kn6x6rpbmmi05ap1f81fyqlgrzgj0";
+  };
+
+  # ERROR: testExtended (tests.test_acls.AclExtensions)
+  # IOError: [Errno 0] Error
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  buildInputs = with pkgs; [ acl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A Python extension module for POSIX ACLs, it can be used to query, list, add, and remove ACLs from files and directories under operating systems that support them";
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-fuse/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-fuse/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d9debce6aecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-fuse/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ lib
+, pkgconfig
+, fetchurl
+, fuse
+, buildPythonPackage
+, isPy3k
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+    baseName = "fuse";
+    version = "0.2.1";
+    name = "${baseName}-${version}";
+    disabled = isPy3k;
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/fuse/fuse-python-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "06rmp1ap6flh64m81j0n3a357ij2vj9zwcvvw0p31y6hz1id9shi";
+    };
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+    buildInputs = [ fuse ];
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "Python bindings for FUSE";
+      license = lib.licenses.lgpl21;
+    };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyxattr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyxattr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..558dc37a394f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyxattr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib
+, pkgs
+, fetchPypi
+, buildPythonPackage
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "pyxattr";
+    version = "0.6.0";
+    name = pname + "-" + version;
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "1a3fqjlgbzq5hmc3yrnxxxl8nyn3rz2kfn17svbsahaq4gj0xl09";
+    };
+
+    # IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported (expected)
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    buildInputs = with pkgs; [ attr ];
+
+    meta = with lib; {
+      description = "A Python extension module which gives access to the extended attributes for filesystem objects available in some operating systems";
+      license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+    };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix b/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
index c5bac4db8e5b..4a531c07efd0 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/anki/default.nix
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 }:
 
 let
-    version = "2.0.46";
-    inherit (python2Packages) python wrapPython sqlalchemy pyaudio beautifulsoup httplib2 matplotlib pyqt4;
+    version = "2.0.47";
+    inherit (python2Packages) python wrapPython sqlalchemy pyaudio beautifulsoup4 httplib2 matplotlib pyqt4;
     qt4 = pyqt4.qt;
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       sha256 = "01h51rbnj0r6lmjnn2vzxzaf7mxkc0azmg1v4mvf4pkpsp50a7hr";
     };
 
-    pythonPath = [ pyqt4 sqlalchemy pyaudio beautifulsoup httplib2 ]
+    pythonPath = [ pyqt4 sqlalchemy pyaudio beautifulsoup4 httplib2 ]
               ++ lib.optional plotsSupport matplotlib;
 
     buildInputs = [ python wrapPython lame mplayer libpulseaudio ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 426e263cc63d..d76c836734c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1257,25 +1257,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  beautifulsoup = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "beautifulsoup-3.2.1";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/3.x/BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1nshbcpdn0jpcj51x0spzjp519pkmqz0n0748j7dgpz70zlqbfpm";
-    };
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/;
-      license = "bsd";
-      description = "Undemanding HTML/XML parser";
-    };
-  });
-
   beautifulsoup4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/beautifulsoup4 { };
 
   beaker = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -2756,24 +2737,6 @@ in {
 
   cligj = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cligj { };
 
-  clientform = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "clientform-0.2.10";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/C/ClientForm/ClientForm-0.2.10.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0dydh3i1sx7rrj6d0gj375wkjpiivm7jjlsimw6hmwv4ck7yf1wm";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/;
-
-      license = "bsd";
-
-      description = "Python module for handling HTML forms on the client side";
-    };
-  });
-
   /* There is a project called "closure-linter" on PyPI that is the
      same as this, but it does not appear to be owned by Google.
      So we're pulling from Google's GitHub repo instead. */
@@ -3022,30 +2985,6 @@ in {
   });
 
 
-  configshell_fb = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "1.1.fb10";
-    name = "configshell-fb-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/agrover/configshell-fb/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1dd87xvm98nk3jzybb041gjdahi2z9b53pwqhyxcfj4a91y82ndy";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [
-      pyparsing
-      urwid
-    ];
-
-    # Fails on python 3 due to a None value where a string is expected
-    doCheck = !isPy3k;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python library for building configuration shells";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/agrover/configshell-fb";
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
-  };
-
   confluent-kafka = callPackage ../development/python-modules/confluent-kafka {};
 
   construct = callPackage ../development/python-modules/construct {};
@@ -4658,30 +4597,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  deform_bootstrap = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "deform_bootstrap-0.2.9";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/d/deform_bootstrap/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1hgq3vqsfqdmlyahnlc40w13viawhpzqf4jzigsggdb41x545fda";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [ self.mock ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ deform pyramid ];
-
-    # demo is removed as it depends on deformdemo
-    patchPhase = ''
-      rm -rf deform_bootstrap/demo
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ domenkozar ];
-      platforms = platforms.all;
-    };
-  };
-
-  demjson = callPackage ../development/python-modules/demjson { };
-
   derpconf = self.buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "derpconf-0.4.9";
 
@@ -5680,27 +5595,6 @@ in {
 
   google-compute-engine = callPackage ../tools/virtualization/google-compute-engine { };
 
-  googlecl = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.9.14";
-    name    = "googlecl-${version}";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url    = "https://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0nnf7xkr780wivr5xnchfcrahlzy9bi2dxcs1w1bh1014jql0iha";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Brings Google services to the command line";
-      homepage    = https://code.google.com/p/googlecl/;
-      license     = licenses.asl20;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
-      platforms   = platforms.unix;
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ gdata ];
-  };
-
   gplaycli = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "0.1.2";
     name = "gplaycli-${version}";
@@ -6188,35 +6082,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  ledger-autosync = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "ledger-autosync-${version}";
-    version = "0.2.3";
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/l/ledger-autosync/ledger-autosync-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "f19fa66e656309825887171d84a462e64676b1cc36b62e4dd8679ff63926a469";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ ofxclient ];
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [
-      mock
-      nose
-      # Used at runtime to translate ofx entries to the ledger
-      # format. In fact, user could use either ledger or hledger.
-      pkgs.which
-      pkgs.ledger ];
-
-    # Tests are disable since they require hledger and python-ledger
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://gitlab.com/egh/ledger-autosync;
-      description = "ledger-autosync is a program to pull down transactions from your bank and create ledger transactions for them";
-      license = licenses.gpl3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ lewo ];
-    };
-  };
-
   libsexy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libsexy {
     libsexy = pkgs.libsexy;
   };
@@ -7199,19 +7064,6 @@ in {
   };
 
 
-  pyramid_debugtoolbar = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pyramid_debugtoolbar-1.0.9";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/pyramid_debugtoolbar/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1vnzg1qnnyisv7znxg7pasayfyr3nz7rrs5nqr4fmdgwj9q2pyv0";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pyramid pyramid_mako ];
-  };
-
-
   pyramid_mako = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyramid_mako-0.3.1";
 
@@ -7730,30 +7582,6 @@ in {
   };
 
 
-  rtmidi = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.3a";
-    name = "rtmidi-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "http://chrisarndt.de/projects/python-rtmidi/download/python-${name}.tar.bz2";
-      sha256 = "0d2if633m3kbiricd5hgn1csccd8xab6lnab1bq9prdr9ks9i8h6";
-    };
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      sed -i "/use_setuptools/d" setup.py
-    '';
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.alsaLib pkgs.libjack2 ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python wrapper for the RtMidi C++ library written with Cython";
-      homepage = http://trac.chrisarndt.de/code/wiki/python-rtmidi;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
-    };
-  };
-
-
   setuptools-git = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "setuptools-git-${version}";
     version = "1.1";
@@ -8412,22 +8240,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  doxypy = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "doxypy-0.4.2";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "http://code.foosel.org/files/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1afmb30zmy7942b53qa5vd3js883wwqqls35n8xfb3rnj0qnll8g";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://code.foosel.org/doxypy;
-      description = "An input filter for Doxygen";
-    };
-
-    doCheck = false;
-  };
-
 
   dtopt = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "dtopt-0.1";
@@ -8969,27 +8781,6 @@ in {
 
   pytorch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pytorch { };
 
-  python_tvrage = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    version = "0.4.1";
-    name = "tvrage-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/python-tvrage/python-tvrage-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "f8a530376c5cf1bc573d1945a8504c3394b228c731a3eff5100c705997a72063";
-    };
-
-    # has mostly networking dependent tests
-    doCheck = false;
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ beautifulsoup ];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://github.com/ckreutzer/python-tvrage;
-      description = "Client interface for tvrage.com's XML-based api feeds";
-      license = licenses.bsd3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ domenkozar ];
-    };
-  });
-
   python2-pythondialog = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "python2-pythondialog-${version}";
     version = "3.3.0";
@@ -9200,25 +8991,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  fuse = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    baseName = "fuse";
-    version = "0.2.1";
-    name = "${baseName}-${version}";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/fuse/fuse-python-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "06rmp1ap6flh64m81j0n3a357ij2vj9zwcvvw0p31y6hz1id9shi";
-    };
-
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.fuse ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python bindings for FUSE";
-      license = licenses.lgpl21;
-    };
-  });
+  fuse = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-fuse { };
 
   fusepy = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "fusepy-2.0.4";
@@ -11208,7 +10981,7 @@ in {
       sha256 = "0rki9nl4y42q694parafcsdcdqvkdjckrbg6n0691302lfsrkyfl";
     };
 
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ clientform html5lib ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ html5lib ];
 
     doCheck = false;
 
@@ -12590,23 +12363,6 @@ in {
 
   nose-exclude = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nose-exclude { };
 
-  nose-selecttests = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.4";
-    name = "nose-selecttests-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/n/nose-selecttests/${name}.zip";
-      sha256 = "0lgrfgp3sq8xi8d9grrg0z8jsyk0wl8a3rxw31hb7vdncin5b7n5";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ nose ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Simple nose plugin that enables developers to run subset of collected tests to spare some waiting time for better things";
-    };
-  };
-
-
   nose2 = if isPy26 then null else (buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "nose2-0.5.0";
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
@@ -16202,8 +15958,6 @@ in {
      };
    };
 
-  pyfeed = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyfeed { };
-
   pyfftw = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyfftw { };
 
   pyfiglet = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyfiglet { };
@@ -16934,25 +16688,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  pylibacl = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "pylibacl-0.5.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/downloads/iustin/pylibacl/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1idks7j9bn62xzsaxkvhl7bdq6ws8kv8aa0wahfh7724qlbbcf1k";
-    };
-
-    # ERROR: testExtended (tests.test_acls.AclExtensions)
-    # IOError: [Errno 0] Error
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.acl ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python extension module for POSIX ACLs, it can be used to query, list, add, and remove ACLs from files and directories under operating systems that support them";
-      license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
-    };
-  });
+  pylibacl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pylibacl { };
 
   pyliblo = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyliblo-${version}";
@@ -16974,29 +16710,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  pymacs = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.25";
-    name = "pymacs-${version}";
-    disabled = isPy3k || isPyPy;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v${version}";
-      name = "${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1hmy76c5igm95rqbld7gvk0az24smvc8hplfwx2f5rhn6frj3p2i";
-    };
-
-    configurePhase = "make";
-
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Emacs Lisp to Python interface";
-      homepage = http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca;
-      license = licenses.gpl2;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
-    };
-  };
-
   pypcap = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pypcap {};
 
   pyplatec = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -17542,25 +17255,7 @@ in {
 
   pywinrm = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pywinrm { };
 
-  pyxattr = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "pyxattr-0.5.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/downloads/iustin/pyxattr/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0jmkffik6hdzs7ng8c65bggss2ai40nm59jykswdf5lpd36cxddq";
-    };
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.attr ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python extension module which gives access to the extended attributes for filesystem objects available in some operating systems";
-      license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
-    };
-  });
-
+  pyxattr = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyxattr { };
 
   pyaml = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "pyaml-15.02.1";
@@ -17880,27 +17575,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  requests_oauth2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "requests-oauth2-0.1.1";
-    # python3 does not support relative imports
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = https://github.com/maraujop/requests-oauth2/archive/0.1.1.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "1aij66qg9j5j4vzyh64nbg72y7pcafgjddxsi865racsay43xfqg";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests ];
-    # no tests in tarball
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python's Requests OAuth2 (Open Authentication) plugin";
-      homepage = https://github.com/maraujop/requests-oauth2;
-    };
-  };
-
-
   restview = callPackage ../development/python-modules/restview { };
 
   readme = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -18196,44 +17870,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  ropemacs = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.7";
-    name = "ropemacs-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/r/ropemacs/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1x5qf1drcdz9jfiiakc60kzqkb3ahsg9j902c5byf3gjfacdrmqj";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ ropemode ];
-
-     meta = {
-       description = "A plugin for performing python refactorings in emacs";
-       homepage = http://rope.sf.net/ropemacs.html;
-       maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
-       license = licenses.gpl2;
-     };
-  };
-
-  ropemode = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.2";
-    name = "ropemode-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/r/ropemode/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0jw6h1wvk6wk0wknqdf7s9pw76m8472jv546lqdd88jbl2scgcjl";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ rope ];
-
-     meta = {
-       description = "A plugin for performing python refactorings in emacs";
-       homepage = http://rope.sf.net;
-       maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
-       license = licenses.gpl2;
-     };
-  };
-
   ropper = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ropper { };
 
   routes = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -18430,22 +18066,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  rtslib_fb = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "2.1.fb43";
-    name = "rtslib-fb-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/agrover/rtslib-fb/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1b59vyy12g6rix9l2fxx0hjiq33shkb79v57gwffs57vh74wc53v";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A Python object API for managing the Linux LIO kernel target";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/agrover/rtslib-fb";
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
-  };
-
   s3transfer = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "0.1.10";
     name = "s3transfer-${version}";
@@ -19508,39 +19128,6 @@ in {
 
   six = callPackage ../development/python-modules/six { };
 
-
-  skype4py = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "Skype4Py-1.0.32.0";
-    disabled = isPy3k || isPyPy;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://sourceforge/skype4py/Skype4Py-1.0.32.0.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "0cmkrv450wa8v50bng5dflpwkl5c1p9pzysjkb2956w5kvwh6f5b";
-    };
-
-    unpackPhase = ''
-      tar xf $src
-      find . -type d -exec chmod +rx {} \;
-      sourceRoot=`pwd`/`ls -d S*`
-    '';
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.xorg.libX11 dbus-python pygobject2 ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "High-level, platform independent Skype API wrapper for Python";
-
-      # The advertisement says https://developer.skype.com/wiki/Skype4Py
-      # but that url does not work. This following web page points to the
-      # download link and has some information about the package.
-      homepage = http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Skype4Py/1.0.32.0;
-      broken = true;
-      license = "BSD";
-    };
-  });
-
   smartdc = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "smartdc-0.1.12";
 
@@ -20193,57 +19780,6 @@ in {
 
   tabulate = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tabulate { };
 
-  targetcli_fb = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "2.1.fb33";
-    name = "targetcli-fb-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/agrover/targetcli-fb/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1zcm0agdpf866020b43fl8zyyyzz6r74mn1sz4xpaa0pinpwjk42";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [
-      configshell_fb
-      rtslib_fb
-    ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "A command shell for managing the Linux LIO kernel target";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/agrover/targetcli-fb";
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
-  };
-
-  taskcoach = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "TaskCoach-1.3.22";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/taskcoach/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1ddx56bqmh347synhgjq625ijv5hqflr0apxg0nl4jqdsqk1zmxh";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ wxPython ];
-
-    # I don't know why I need to add these libraries. Shouldn't they
-    # be part of wxPython?
-    postInstall = ''
-      libspaths=${with pkgs.xorg; pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [ libSM libXScrnSaver ]}
-      wrapProgram $out/bin/taskcoach.py \
-        --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : $libspaths
-    '';
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://taskcoach.org/;
-      description = "Todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists";
-      license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-      broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
-    };
-  };
-
   taskw = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "1.0.3";
     name = "taskw-${version}";
@@ -20605,29 +20141,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  trac = buildPythonPackage {
-    name = "trac-1.0.1";
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-1.0.1.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "1nqa95fcnkpyq4jk6az7l7sqgm3b3pjq3bx1n7y4v3bad5jr1m4x";
-    };
-
-    # couple of failing tests
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    PYTHON_EGG_CACHE = "`pwd`/.egg-cache";
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ genshi ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects";
-
-      license = "BSD";
-    };
-  };
-
   traits = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "traits-${version}";
     version = "4.5.0";
@@ -21529,26 +21042,6 @@ EOF
 
   widgetsnbextension = callPackage ../development/python-modules/widgetsnbextension { };
 
-
-  wokkel = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    url = "http://wokkel.ik.nu/releases/0.7.0/wokkel-0.7.0.tar.gz";
-    name = nameFromURL url ".tar";
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      inherit url;
-      sha256 = "0rnshrzw8605x05mpd8ndrx3ri8h6cx713mp8sl4f04f4gcrz8ml";
-    };
-
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [twisted dateutil];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Some (mainly XMPP-related) additions to twisted";
-      homepage = "http://wokkel.ik.nu/";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  });
-
   magic-wormhole = callPackage ../development/python-modules/magic-wormhole { };
 
   wsgiproxy2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -21589,23 +21082,6 @@ EOF
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ eventlib application ];
   };
 
-  xe = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    url = "http://www.blarg.net/%7Esteveha/xe-0.7.4.tar.gz";
-    name = stdenv.lib.nameFromURL url ".tar";
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      inherit url;
-      sha256 = "0v9878cl0y9cczdsr6xjy8v9l139lc23h4m5f86p4kpf2wlnpi42";
-    };
-
-    # error: invalid command 'test'
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = "http://home.blarg.net/~steveha/xe.html";
-      description = "XML elements";
-    };
-  };
-
   xlib = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "xlib-${version}";
     version = "0.17";
@@ -23259,29 +22735,6 @@ EOF
     };
   };
 
-
-  redNotebook = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "rednotebook-1.8.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/rednotebook/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "00b7s4xpqpxsbzjvjx9qsx5d84m9pvn383c5di1nsfh35pig0rzn";
-    };
-
-    # no tests available
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pygtk pywebkitgtk pyyaml chardet ];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/index.html;
-      description = "A modern journal that includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds";
-      license = licenses.gpl2;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ tstrobel ];
-    };
-  };
-
-
   uncertainties = callPackage ../development/python-modules/uncertainties { };
 
   funcy = buildPythonPackage rec {