diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
index b505a67b124c6..c7ca139450115 100644
--- a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST importlib_metadata-0.18.tar.gz 23341 BLAKE2B e1c43a760b141b0589973672ad1cd6c47e077293353f67ebe2c2b3631265712dcecc8e14a57803539d2276d5d908fae3c4ac07165ddd5937cf53955ff896001e SHA512 2f39789725548bcb37061b0b99f90802a2919339db6b29f95b38811b35f4cafc7acfb4cca1167e28a4738ba195af31344f59ab457d87710764d1ba8f06034b18
 DIST importlib_metadata-0.19.tar.gz 23338 BLAKE2B 10c43bee5324804b359f951e5d375559e3a58663b11f0bda1b39ce82dcdd0ba735083793a954e2ac18b5fd607d9ea5628a86f9c345c83d718a7e46738774e0ee SHA512 2d0126e7430804b2295ec159778082806957cb86b5c7408c38064cc7c7e62229d382778284a5a231925ab336a7cc6da8e705f6bd7ae6da66f11acd1229bda17b
+DIST importlib_metadata-0.20.tar.gz 23712 BLAKE2B 0af0b4fad171f24aad0b387af98b9f5c0bfec14e7f358e45afb70650dd1daf3b8abde8012ebe2e4f5751792d542d2567dda856696de8cdf96f27b50560c55645 SHA512 663d6af2f2d83c4744809b4b58ebe4152962ee40ecf17070a532614c7238a88374aa70fcefb6b7ce26d2d351b00c0859ce590f734bdd2ef76ad58b041307a95b
diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-0.20.ebuild b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-0.20.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8c74d53032233
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-0.20.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy{,3} python{2_7,3_{5,6,7}} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Read metadata from Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE="https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="doc test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/zipp[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/configparser-3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/contextlib2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/pathlib2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools_scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/importlib_resources[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' pypy pypy3 python2_7 python3_5 python3_6)
+	)
+	doc? (
+		>=dev-python/rst-linker-1.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+python_prepare_all() {
+	sed -i "/'sphinx.ext.intersphinx'/d" ${PN}/docs/conf.py || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		sphinx-build ${PN}/docs docs/_build/html || die
+		HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	"${EPYTHON}" -m unittest discover -v || die "tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}