diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4c8785e22596..4b95e1fe15c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4861,6 +4861,7 @@ let
 
   google_apputils = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "google-apputils-0.4.1";
+    disabled = isPy3k;
 
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
       url = "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/google-apputils/${name}.tar.gz";