diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 4baef4391..79788520a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ data types.")
   (package (inherit python)
     (name "python-minimal")
     (outputs '("out"))
-
     ;; Build fails due to missing ctypes without libffi.
     ;; OpenSSL is a mandatory dependency of Python 3.x, for urllib;
     ;; zlib is required by 'zipimport', used by pip.
@@ -395,6 +394,28 @@ data types.")
               ("openssl" ,openssl)
               ("zlib" ,zlib)))))
 
+(define-public python-debug
+  (package (inherit python)
+    (name "python-debug")
+    (outputs '("out" "debug"))
+    ;; Build fails due to missing ctypes without libffi.
+    ;; OpenSSL is a mandatory dependency of Python 3.x, for urllib;
+    ;; zlib is required by 'zipimport', used by pip.
+    (inputs `(("libffi" ,libffi)
+              ("openssl" ,openssl)
+              ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:tests? #f
+       #:configure-flags
+       (list "--enable-shared"                    ;allow embedding
+             "--with-system-ffi"                  ;build ctypes
+             "--with-ensurepip=install"           ;install pip and setuptools
+             "--enable-unicode=ucs4"
+             "--with-pydebug"
+             (string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib"))
+             ))))
+
 (define* (wrap-python3 python
                        #:optional
                        (name (string-append (package-name python) "-wrapper")))