diff --git a/dev-python/rope/Manifest b/dev-python/rope/Manifest
index 2609619a09f89..74237cb3fdeb0 100644
--- a/dev-python/rope/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/rope/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST rope-0.22.0.tar.gz 260138 BLAKE2B 11aff47af50225d66ade44a63a2c747bc11f0adcec1abed2dff71466f088f1460b3eec541db326af545f89907eb9d4f518c24ec8a445ca07b3116573883123ec SHA512 ead82eba834890d90a6972cc432d153b977a123588621712b50decf1f1bfff03cd411e3615dff63a5272cf4a46b32791ea625f30e3dfdf9d1969081a99544396
+DIST rope-0.23.0.tar.gz 260990 BLAKE2B 34064f45f72d6c9c5613eb5d9480dde25aeb5426ab3ea9b56e7ba5e4da1d9930735bd87757e3e885d4504ddcb24b23aa96b0d5be7c23ca4969201aedbaa3aa24 SHA512 1ab0a36c792fdc4d0fd1e554deec0fb6d1e877d91164fb8ee2e5f99240087f8a8d4608d1975be100bca87be0321d672b91579cf36795acffc742aa021cdf5e1b
diff --git a/dev-python/rope/rope-0.23.0.ebuild b/dev-python/rope/rope-0.23.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f461efcc5f5f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/rope/rope-0.23.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python refactoring library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/python-rope/rope"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="doc"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	doc? ( dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	test? ( dev-python/pytest-timeout[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		pushd docs > /dev/null || die
+		mkdir build || die
+		local i
+		for i in ./*.rst; do
+			rst2html.py $i > ./build/${i/rst/html} || die
+		done
+		popd > /dev/null || die
+	fi
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( docs/build/. )
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}