diff --git a/eden/scm/edenscm/mercurial/formatter.py b/eden/scm/edenscm/mercurial/formatter.py
index d393df2eff..f09c58935a 100644
--- a/eden/scm/edenscm/mercurial/formatter.py
+++ b/eden/scm/edenscm/mercurial/formatter.py
@@ -122,10 +122,6 @@ from .i18n import _
 from .node import hex, short
 
 
-# pyre-fixme[11]: Annotation `pickle` is not defined as a type.
-pickle = util.pickle
-
-
 class _nullconverter(object):
     """convert non-primitive data types to be processed by formatter"""
 
@@ -140,9 +136,7 @@ class _nullconverter(object):
     @staticmethod
     def formatdict(data, key, value, fmt, sep):
         """convert dict or key-value pairs to appropriate dict format"""
-        # use plain dict instead of util.sortdict so that data can be
-        # serialized as a builtin dict in pickle output
-        return dict(data)
+        return data
 
     @staticmethod
     def formatlist(data, name, fmt, sep):
@@ -355,20 +349,6 @@ class debugformatter(baseformatter):
         self._out.write("]\n")
 
 
-class pickleformatter(baseformatter):
-    def __init__(self, ui, out, topic, opts):
-        baseformatter.__init__(self, ui, topic, opts, _nullconverter)
-        self._out = out
-        self._data = []
-
-    def _showitem(self):
-        self._data.append(self._item)
-
-    def end(self):
-        baseformatter.end(self)
-        self._out.write(pickle.dumps(self._data))
-
-
 class jsonformatter(baseformatter):
     def __init__(self, ui, out, topic, opts):
         baseformatter.__init__(self, ui, topic, opts, _nullconverter)
@@ -587,8 +567,6 @@ def formatter(ui, out, topic, opts):
     template = opts.get("template", "")
     if template == "json":
         return jsonformatter(ui, out, topic, opts)
-    elif template == "pickle":
-        return pickleformatter(ui, out, topic, opts)
     elif template == "debug":
         return debugformatter(ui, out, topic, opts)
     elif template != "":
diff --git a/eden/scm/tests/test-status.t b/eden/scm/tests/test-status.t
index 14e53e7aa3..8b05ce5401 100644
--- a/eden/scm/tests/test-status.t
+++ b/eden/scm/tests/test-status.t
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#require py2
 #chg-compatible
 
   $ hg init repo1
@@ -231,13 +230,6 @@ hg status -A:
    }
   ]
 
-  $ hg status -A -Tpickle > pickle
-  >>> from __future__ import print_function
-  >>> import pickle
-  >>> print(sorted((x['status'], x['path']) for x in pickle.load(open("pickle"))))
-  [('!', 'deleted'), ('?', 'pickle'), ('?', 'unknown'), ('A', 'added'), ('A', 'copied'), ('C', '.gitignore'), ('C', 'modified'), ('I', 'ignored'), ('R', 'removed')]
-  $ rm pickle
-
   $ echo "ignoreddir/" > .gitignore
   $ mkdir ignoreddir
   $ touch ignoreddir/file
@@ -447,12 +439,12 @@ hg status of binary file starting with '\1\n', a separator for metadata:
 
   $ hg init repo5
   $ cd repo5
-  >>> _ = open("010a", "wb").write("\1\nfoo")
+  >>> _ = open("010a", "wb").write(b"\1\nfoo")
   $ hg ci -q -A -m 'initial checkin'
   $ hg status -A
   C 010a
 
-  >>> _ = open("010a", "wb").write("\1\nbar")
+  >>> _ = open("010a", "wb").write(b"\1\nbar")
   $ hg status -A
   M 010a
   $ hg ci -q -m 'modify 010a'