diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index c1dccfd4c3..25b43c0dbb 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-posix-ipc/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-protobuf/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-psutil/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-ptyprocess/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyasn/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyasn-modules/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pycli/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-ptyprocess/Config.in b/package/python-ptyprocess/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b95dacbd35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-ptyprocess/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PTYPROCESS
+	bool "python-ptyprocess"
+	help
+	  Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact
+	  with both the process and its pty.
+
+	  https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess
diff --git a/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.hash b/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e2e0aeda4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# md5 from https://pypi.python.org, sha256 locally computed
+md5	94e537122914cc9ec9c1eadcd36e73a1 ptyprocess-0.5.1.tar.gz
+sha256 0530ce63a9295bfae7bd06edc02b6aa935619f486f0f1dc0972f516265ee81a6  ptyprocess-0.5.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.mk b/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59329d01e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-ptyprocess/python-ptyprocess.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-ptyprocess
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_VERSION = 0.5.1
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/ptyprocess
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_SOURCE = ptyprocess-$(PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_LICENSE = ISC
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+PYTHON_PTYPROCESS_SETUP_TYPE = distutils
+
+$(eval $(python-package))