diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyev/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyev/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b5ca0c7ef6cf..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyev/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, libev }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pyev";
-  version = "0.9.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://pypi/p/pyev/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0rf603lc0s6zpa1nb25vhd8g4y337wg2wyz56i0agsdh7jchl0sx";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ libev ];
-
-  libEvSharedLibrary =
-    if !stdenv.isDarwin
-    then "${libev}/lib/libev.so.4"
-    else "${libev}/lib/libev.4.dylib";
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    test -f "${libEvSharedLibrary}" || { echo "ERROR: File ${libEvSharedLibrary} does not exist, please fix nix expression for pyev"; exit 1; }
-    sed -i -e "s|libev_dll_name = find_library(\"ev\")|libev_dll_name = \"${libEvSharedLibrary}\"|" setup.py
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Python bindings for libev";
-    homepage = https://code.google.com/p/pyev/;
-    license = licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.bjornfor ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 62901ef20520..6bc54ebef679 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4380,8 +4380,6 @@ in {
 
   pyenchant = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyenchant { };
 
-  pyev = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyev { };
-
   pyexcelerator = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyexcelerator { };
 
   pyext = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyext { };