diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/default.nix
index 7a2e358d572b..c7e9e2b087e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/default.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 , bash-completion
 , pkg-config
 , perl
+, buildPythonBindings ? false, python3
 , libxml2
 , fuse
 , fuse3
@@ -23,7 +24,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     bash-completion
     pkg-config
     perl
-  ];
+  ]
+    ++ lib.optionals buildPythonBindings [ python3 ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     fuse
@@ -32,8 +34,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libxml2
   ];
 
+  configureFlags = lib.optionals buildPythonBindings [ "--with-python-installdir=${placeholder "out"}/${python3.sitePackages}" ];
+
   installFlags = [ "bashcompdir=$(out)/share/bash-completion/completions" ];
 
+  postInstall = lib.optionalString buildPythonBindings ''
+    LIBNBD_PYTHON_METADATA='${placeholder "out"}/${python3.sitePackages}/nbd-${version}.dist-info/METADATA'
+    install -Dm644 -T ${./libnbd-metadata} $LIBNBD_PYTHON_METADATA
+    substituteAllInPlace $LIBNBD_PYTHON_METADATA
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd";
     description = "Network Block Device client library in userspace";
@@ -59,5 +69,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 }
 # TODO: package the 1.6-stable version too
 # TODO: git version needs ocaml
-# TODO: bindings for go, ocaml and python
-
+# TODO: bindings for go and ocaml
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/libnbd-metadata b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/libnbd-metadata
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d91ab88d201
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnbd/libnbd-metadata
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Metadata-Version: 2.1
+Name: nbd
+Version: @version@
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2866bf8ccfe2..3f728c1f7515 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6694,6 +6694,11 @@ self: super: with self; {
     inherit (pkgs) libsodium;
   };
 
+  libnbd = toPythonModule (pkgs.libnbd.override {
+    buildPythonBindings = true;
+    python3 = python;
+  });
+
   libpcap = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libpcap {
     pkgsLibpcap = pkgs.libpcap; # Needs the C library
   };