diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 032eefa2b7a..54c2d2e7423 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2235,6 +2235,7 @@ libKF5ThreadWeaver.so.5 threadweaver-5.26.0_1
 libOpenImageIO_Util.so.2.2 openimageio-2.2.13.1_1
 libOpenImageIO.so.2.2 openimageio-2.2.13.1_1
 libOpenColorIO.so.1 opencolorio-1.0.8_1
+libpystring.so.1 pystring-1.1.3_1
 libyaml-cpp.so.0.7 yaml-cpp-0.7.0_1
 libpaper.so.1 libpaper-1.1.24_1
 libhtsjava.so.2 httrack-3.49.2_7
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pystring-devel b/srcpkgs/pystring-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..24f83d734bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pystring-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pystring
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pystring/patches/meson.patch b/srcpkgs/pystring/patches/meson.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6ca8729989b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pystring/patches/meson.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- /dev/null	2022-09-11 10:25:08.762524599 +0200
++++ pystring-1.1.3/meson.build	2022-09-11 12:48:33.304524690 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
++project('pystring', 'cpp')
++pkg = import('pkgconfig')
++lib = library('pystring',
++              'pystring.cpp',
++              version: '1.1.3',
++              soversion: '1',
++              install : true)
++pkg.generate(lib)
++install_headers('pystring.h', subdir: 'pystring')
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pystring/template b/srcpkgs/pystring/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0aa1d0ba709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pystring/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template file for 'pystring'
+pkgname=pystring
+version=1.1.3
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+short_desc="C++ functions matching interface/behavior of python strings"
+maintainer="John <me@johnnynator.dev>"
+license="BSD-2-Clause"
+homepage="https://github.com/imageworks/pystring"
+distfiles="https://github.com/imageworks/pystring/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=358a56e756e701836b69a31c75d3d9d41c34d447cf7b3775bbd5620dcd3203d9
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}
+
+pystring-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}