diff --git a/archivers/Makefile b/archivers/Makefile
index 4cb5853525bd..e6b9ad99666d 100644
--- a/archivers/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/Makefile
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@
     SUBDIR += py-librtfcomp
     SUBDIR += py-lz4
     SUBDIR += py-lzma
+    SUBDIR += py-lzstring
     SUBDIR += py-pyliblzma
     SUBDIR += py-python-lhafile
     SUBDIR += py-python-lzo
diff --git a/archivers/py-lzstring/Makefile b/archivers/py-lzstring/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..942c471e465f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/py-lzstring/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	lzstring
+DISTVERSION=	1.0.4
+CATEGORIES=	archivers python
+MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+
+MAINTAINER=	jwb@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	LZ-based in-memory string compression
+
+LICENSE=	MIT
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.md
+
+USES=		python
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+
+NO_ARCH=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/archivers/py-lzstring/distinfo b/archivers/py-lzstring/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f88358f99227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/py-lzstring/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1569116524
+SHA256 (lzstring-1.0.4.tar.gz) = 1afa61e598193fbcc211e0899f09a9679e33f9102bccc37fbfda0b7fef4d9ea2
+SIZE (lzstring-1.0.4.tar.gz) = 4256
diff --git a/archivers/py-lzstring/pkg-descr b/archivers/py-lzstring/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d9906545892f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/py-lzstring/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+LZ-based, in-memory string compression module, based on the LZ-String
+javascript module.
+
+WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lzstring