diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
index 14736c58f53c..4953e72dfdd6 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -1610,6 +1610,7 @@
     SUBDIR += py-setuptools
     SUBDIR += py-simplejson
     SUBDIR += py-simpleparse
+    SUBDIR += py-simpletal
     SUBDIR += py-simpy
     SUBDIR += py-sip
     SUBDIR += py-spark
diff --git a/devel/py-simpletal/Makefile b/devel/py-simpletal/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0da21c60397c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-simpletal/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	py-simpletal
+# Date created:				26 June 2006
+# Whom:					Jordi Haarman
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	simpletal
+PORTVERSION=	4.1
+CATEGORIES=	devel textproc www python
+MASTER_SITES=	http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/downloads/
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+DISTNAME=	SimpleTAL-${PORTVERSION}
+
+MAINTAINER=	j.haarman@synantics.com
+COMMENT=	Stand alone TAL Python implementation to power  HTML & XML templates
+
+USE_PYTHON=	yes
+USE_PYDISTUTILS=yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-simpletal/distinfo b/devel/py-simpletal/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cf790e57d1b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-simpletal/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = 16c5673382967310b336c68591ae6786
+SHA256 (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = b613282c0b5690cd038a6a4c2bac02f4bf0130f4002e64c7c7f414e3a9340b55
+SIZE (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = 95813
diff --git a/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-descr b/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3abdd6b57cbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+SimpleTAL is a stand alone Python implementation of the TAL, TALES and METAL
+specifications used in Zope to power HTML and XML templates. SimpleTAL is an
+idependent implementation of TAL; there are no dependencies on Zope nor is any
+of the Zope work re-used.
+
+WWW: http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/
diff --git a/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-plist b/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9c465a22eeea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-simpletal/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/DummyLogger.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/DummyLogger.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/DummyLogger.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/__init__.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/__init__.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/__init__.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleElementTree.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleElementTree.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleElementTree.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTAL.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTAL.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTAL.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALES.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALES.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALES.pyo
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.py
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.pyc
+%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.pyo
+@dirrm %%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/simpletal/