diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/default.nix
index 6cb1a4850352dbd..f0143b705f2937b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "0qhisiays582xagndp3vgby6j7ppy6rivw9ycbcc776p0w8s9l21";
   };
 
+  patches = ./setup.py.patch;  # until https://github.com/Yelp/bravado-core/pull/368 is merged
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     python-dateutil
     jsonref
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/setup.py.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/setup.py.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..d3a19a0cc79eef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bravado_core/setup.py.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index bac1ff4..9181aea 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ install_requires = [
+     "six",
+     "swagger-spec-validator>=2.0.1",
+     "pytz",
+-    "msgpack-python>=0.5.2",
++    "msgpack>=0.5.2",
+ ]
+ 
+