diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycosat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycosat/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ad49e38d0658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pycosat/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pycosat";
+  version = "0.6.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    extension = "zip";
+    sha256 = "4c99874946a7e939bb941bbb019dd2c20e6068e3107c91366e7779c69d70e0ed";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Bindings to picosat SAT solver";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat;
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e10d79468bc1..76a00a055d17 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13998,27 +13998,6 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  pycosat = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pycosat-0.6.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/pycosat/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "02sdn2998jlrm35smn1530hix3kzwyc1jv49cjdcnvfvrqqi3rww";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python bindings for PicoSAT";
-      longDescription = ''PicoSAT is a popular SAT solver written by Armin
-          Biere in pure C. This package provides efficient Python bindings
-          to picosat on the C level, i.e. when importing pycosat, the
-          picosat solver becomes part of the Python process itself. For
-          ease of deployment, the picosat source (namely picosat.c and
-          picosat.h) is included in this project.'';
-      homepage = https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  };
-
   pygit2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pygit2 { };
 
   Babel = buildPythonPackage (rec {
@@ -14171,6 +14150,7 @@ in {
 
   };
 
+  pycosat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pycosat { };
 
   pycryptopp = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "pycryptopp-0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958";