diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 46e826dcd..d76cff4de 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ To remove the (conflicting) wrong one, do a:
   * update PyGithub-1.43.8
   * update PyGithub-1.52
   * update evohome-async-0.3.5
+  * restore (still needed) pexpect-4.6.0 from archive
 
 2020-09-13
   * bump youtube_dl-2020.9.6
diff --git a/dev-python/pexpect/Manifest b/dev-python/pexpect/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6fdc30966
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pexpect/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+DIST pexpect-4.6.0.tar.gz 148966 BLAKE2B 0ed1a3c31133bf618e4c75ea099efaa9bda9e2b7f92f46c54ad553ecc56487e5415b750334376a95599ada53e17e91efe7d4b65ad80bb4f6a1cf9d655a3c9685 SHA512 9a2b1ef19d885e69cfd17ba0519581f782574019010043e66d8b68f98ac86b359f4a1ca42f8bb0059a5dfdd43275ad93531c076cc0ac2049e109408961b46bbd
+EBUILD pexpect-4.6.0.ebuild 1037 BLAKE2B e632ef41e3d9b2786ecf638f2e1d13a6b17a354d45c66d527d44e41f52b7a59da955558f949f8c86afea47e671ed49ac10a1f8bc8fc5cfa45a695f0b093cc2c2 SHA512 1bcdf0f1a715c67b068115cdacca2008ad93848f65a77d94f1f18895102522486869fda1a34235a869970a69cea74acff62f25ab2e6d9411dc31aaa86d52f962
+MISC metadata.xml 402 BLAKE2B e6c1f9d8cc5397177b54d7bda059a281267e005b9391e6d18e3b70ec3e6fd09bbdf1d214a105e608e3a43f34f0f6e5d7e924366e33647fdfc7d68283c8749d06 SHA512 bd48e666243651d02523b111ee7d8073ed10b8813765f19c7d17e12b7b84bf58be03a157486fcaa65f34866a983d46885723d944348a0cc16b9bb05cc474ffaa
diff --git a/dev-python/pexpect/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pexpect/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67e271d5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pexpect/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <stabilize-allarches/>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">pexpect</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">pexpect/pexpect</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pexpect/pexpect-4.6.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pexpect/pexpect-4.6.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a93d1c6be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pexpect/pexpect-4.6.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{6,7,8} pypy3 )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python module for spawning child apps and responding to expected patterns"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/ https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/ https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="doc examples"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-python/ptyprocess-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx )"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	use doc && emake -C doc html
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( doc/_build/html/. )
+	if use examples; then
+		dodoc -r examples
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}