diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/donfig/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/donfig/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3c06c81917c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/donfig/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  setuptools,
+  versioneer,
+  pyyaml,
+  cloudpickle,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "donfig";
+  version = "0.8.1.post1";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pytroll";
+    repo = "donfig";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-hF4hzI1MTLgUexRIqwBEEEMV7Az2oDkp5GQQ5282vwE=";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
+      --replace-fail "versioneer[toml]==0.28" versioneer
+  '';
+
+  build-system = [
+    setuptools
+    versioneer
+  ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    pyyaml
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    cloudpickle
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "donfig"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Python library for configuring a package including defaults, env variable loading, and yaml loading";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pytroll/donfig";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/pytroll/donfig/blob/${src.rev}/CHANGELOG.md";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index cc689d6241f6..b08c12f02ab2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3853,6 +3853,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   dominate = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dominate { };
 
+  donfig = callPackage ../development/python-modules/donfig { };
+
   doorbirdpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/doorbirdpy { };
 
   dopy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dopy { };