diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/textwrap3/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/textwrap3/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5b8e10db83ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/textwrap3/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, tox
+, pytest
+, coverage
+, pytestcov
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "textwrap3";
+  version = "0.9.2";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    extension = "zip";
+    sha256 = "5008eeebdb236f6303dcd68f18b856d355f6197511d952ba74bc75e40e0c3414";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    tox
+    pytest
+    coverage
+    pytestcov
+  ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Textwrap from Python 3.6 backport plus a few tweaks";
+    homepage = https://github.com/jonathaneunice/textwrap3;
+    license = licenses.psfl;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e9d766d1ee3a..fd583c54a8a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5254,7 +5254,9 @@ in {
 
   texttable = callPackage ../development/python-modules/texttable { };
 
-  tiledb = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tiledb { 
+  textwrap3 =  callPackage ../development/python-modules/textwrap3 { };
+
+  tiledb = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tiledb {
     inherit (pkgs) tiledb;
   };