diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zimports/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zimports/default.nix
index 53c4bd8ed208..ee9d683c8642 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zimports/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zimports/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 { lib
-, isPy3k
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , buildPythonPackage
 , flake8-import-order
@@ -7,6 +6,7 @@
 , tomli
 , setuptools
 , pytestCheckHook
+, pythonAtLeast
 , pythonOlder
 }:
 
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   version = "0.6.0";
   format = "setuptools";
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+  # upstream technically support 3.7 through 3.9, but 3.10 happens to work while 3.11 breaks with an import error
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7" || pythonAtLeast "3.11";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "sqlalchemyorg";