diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index f8d4e4d24c..e6180c8761 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-docopt/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-docutils/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-dominate/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-dotenv/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-dpkt/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-dtschema/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-ecdsa/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-dotenv/Config.in b/package/python-dotenv/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9b42bd28e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-dotenv/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DOTENV
+	bool "python-dotenv"
+	help
+	  Read key-value pairs from a .env file and set them as
+	  environment variables.
+
+	  https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv
diff --git a/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.hash b/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..710922fba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/python-dotenv/json
+md5  68abb78e05460ce558ca255de550e1ea  python-dotenv-1.0.1.tar.gz
+sha256  e324ee90a023d808f1959c46bcbc04446a10ced277783dc6ee09987c37ec10ca  python-dotenv-1.0.1.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  80619b7049f08c81683ad0e01f08f257a840652dd71ee83146d36658c7d2c2b9  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.mk b/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..324eea239e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-dotenv/python-dotenv.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-dotenv
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_DOTENV_VERSION = 1.0.1
+PYTHON_DOTENV_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bc/57/e84d88dfe0aec03b7a2d4327012c1627ab5f03652216c63d49846d7a6c58
+PYTHON_DOTENV_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_DOTENV_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
+PYTHON_DOTENV_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))