diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mysql_python/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mysql_python/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ab11521cc8804..00000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mysql_python/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv
-, buildPythonPackage
-, isPy3k
-, fetchPypi
-, nose
-, pkgs
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "MySQL-python";
-  version = "1.2.5";
-  disabled = isPy3k;
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    extension = "zip";
-    sha256 = "0x0c2jg0bb3pp84njaqiic050qkyd7ymwhfvhipnimg58yv40441";
-  };
-
-  checkInputs = [ nose ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.mysql.connector-c ];
-  buildInputs = [ pkgs.mysql.connector-c ];
-
-  # plenty of failing tests
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "MySQL database binding for Python";
-    homepage = https://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python;
-    license = licenses.gpl3;
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6e936afd5ea171..c010555d28cfb4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3873,8 +3873,6 @@ in {
 
   monotonic = callPackage ../development/python-modules/monotonic { };
 
-  MySQL_python = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mysql_python { };
-
   mysql-connector = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mysql-connector { };
 
   namebench = callPackage ../development/python-modules/namebench { };