diff --git a/packagename/example_c.pyx b/packagename/example_c.pyx
deleted file mode 100644
index a9689a4e0..000000000
--- a/packagename/example_c.pyx
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@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-def primes(int imax):
-    """
-    Returns prime numbers up to imax.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    imax: int
-        The number of primes to return. This should be less or equal to 10000.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    result: list
-        The list of prime numbers.
-    """
-
-    cdef int n, k, i
-    cdef int p[10001]
-    result = []
-    k = 0
-    n = 2
-    i = 0
-
-    if imax > 10000:
-        raise ValueError("imax should be <= 10000")
-
-    while len(result) < imax:
-        i = 0
-        while i < k and n % p[i] != 0:
-            i = i + 1
-        if i == k:
-            p[k] = n
-            k = k + 1
-            result.append(n)
-            if k > 10000:
-                break
-        n = n + 1
-
-    return result
diff --git a/packagename/example_mod.py b/packagename/example_mod.py
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index 57fcf4f9f..000000000
--- a/packagename/example_mod.py
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-def primes(imax):
-    """
-    Returns prime numbers up to imax.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    imax: int
-        The number of primes to return. This should be less or equal to 10000.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    result: list
-        The list of prime numbers.
-    """
-
-    p = range(10000)
-    result = []
-    k = 0
-    n = 2
-
-    if imax > 10000:
-        raise ValueError("imax should be <= 10000")
-
-    while len(result) < imax:
-        i = 0
-        while i < k and n % p[i] != 0:
-            i = i + 1
-        if i == k:
-            p[k] = n
-            k = k + 1
-            result.append(n)
-            if k > 10000:
-                break
-        n = n + 1
-
-    return result
-
-
-def do_primes(n, usecython=False):
-    if usecython:
-        from .example_c import primes as cprimes
-        print('Using cython-based primes')
-        return cprimes(n)
-    else:
-        print('Using pure python primes')
-        return primes(n)
-
-
-def main(args=None):
-
-    from astropy.utils.compat import argparse
-    from time import time
-
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Process some integers.')
-    parser.add_argument('-c', '--use-cython', dest='cy', action='store_true',
-                        help='Use the Cython-based Prime number generator.')
-    parser.add_argument('-t', '--timing', dest='time', action='store_true',
-                        help='Time the Fibonacci generator.')
-    parser.add_argument('-p', '--print', dest='prnt', action='store_true',
-                        help='Print all of the Prime numbers.')
-    parser.add_argument('n', metavar='N', type=int,
-                        help='Get Prime numbers up to this number.')
-
-    res = parser.parse_args(args)
-
-    pre = time()
-    primes = do_primes(res.n, res.cy)
-    post = time()
-
-    print('Found {0} prime numbers'.format(len(primes)))
-    print('Largest prime: {0}'.format(primes[-1]))
-
-    if res.time:
-        print('Running time: {0} s'.format(post - pre))
-
-    if res.prnt:
-        print('Primes: {0}'.format(primes))
diff --git a/packagename/example_subpkg/__init__.py b/packagename/example_subpkg/__init__.py
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index 621b0a7cd..000000000
--- a/packagename/example_subpkg/__init__.py
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@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-"""
-This is the docstring for the examplesubpkg package.  Normally you would
-have whatever.py files in this directory implementing some modules, but this
-is just an example sub-package, so it doesn't actually do anything.
-"""
diff --git a/packagename/tests/test_example.py b/packagename/tests/test_example.py
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index 416a363eb..000000000
--- a/packagename/tests/test_example.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-def test_primes_c():
-    from ..example_c import primes as primes_c
-    assert primes_c(10) == [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29]
-
-def test_primes():
-    from ..example_mod import primes
-    assert primes(10) == [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29]
diff --git a/scripts/script_example b/scripts/script_example
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index 22190d5d8..000000000
--- a/scripts/script_example
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-"""An example command-line script"""
-
-import packagename.example_mod
-
-packagename.example_mod.main()