I recently ran into an error while updating my nixos configuration: the python package wxpython pulled as a dependency of another package was failing to build with the following error.

error: wxpython-4.2.1 not supported for interpreter python3.12

A quick search and I was able to find a patch to get wxpython to build. Rather than waiting for the patch to make its way into the nixpkgs repository, I decided to make an overlay for it. In nix, python package derivations are defined once but are built for multiple python versions so creating an overlay requires using pythonPackagesExtensions as follow.

self: super:

{
  pythonPackagesExtensions = super.pythonPackagesExtensions ++ [
    (pyfinal: pyprev: {
      wxpython = pyprev.wxpython.overrideAttrs (old: {
        disabled = false;
        postPatch =
          let
            waf_2_0_25 = super.fetchurl {
              url = "https://waf.io/waf-2.0.25";
              hash = "sha256-IRmc0iDM9gQ0Ez4f0quMjlIXw3mRmcgnIlQ5cNyOONU=";
            };
          in
          ''
            cp ${waf_2_0_25} bin/waf-2.0.25
            chmod +x bin/waf-2.0.25
            substituteInPlace build.py \
              --replace-fail "wafCurrentVersion = '2.0.24'" "wafCurrentVersion = '2.0.25'" \
              --replace-fail "wafMD5 = '698f382cca34a08323670f34830325c4'" "wafMD5 = 'a4b1c34a03d594e5744f9e42f80d969d'" \
              --replace-fail "distutils.dep_util" "setuptools.modified"
          '';
      });
    })
  ];
}