diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bash_kernel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bash-kernel/default.nix
similarity index 94%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/bash_kernel/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/bash-kernel/default.nix
index 5956d52de861..a9ef9615411f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bash_kernel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bash-kernel/default.nix
@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "bash_kernel";
+  pname = "bash-kernel";
   version = "0.9.1";
   format = "flit";
   disabled = isPy27;
 
   src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
+    pname = "bash_kernel";
+    inherit version;
     sha256 = "sha256-AYPVPjYP+baEcQUqmiiagWIXMlFrA04njpcgtdFaFis=";
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 4f843ef4a891..d84b7b3a439b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   backports_tempfile = throw "backports_tempfile has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.3"; # added 2023-07-28
   backports_unittest-mock = throw "backports_unittest-mock has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.2"; # added 2023-07-28
   backports_weakref = throw "backports_weakref has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.3"; # added 2023-07-28
+  bash_kernel = bash-kernel; # added 2023-11-10
   beancount_docverif = beancount-docverif; # added 2023-10-08
   bedup = throw "bedup was removed because it was broken and abandoned upstream"; # added 2023-02-04
   bip_utils = bip-utils; # 2023-10-08
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 53d451ec6f11..c2bc8983251c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   basemap-data = callPackage ../development/python-modules/basemap-data { };
 
-  bash_kernel = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bash_kernel { };
+  bash-kernel = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bash-kernel { };
 
   bashlex = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bashlex { };