diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spyder/3.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spyder/3.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2618ccfcd8c5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spyder/3.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, jedi, pycodestyle,
-  psutil, pyflakes, rope, pylint, keyring, numpydoc,
-  qtconsole, qtawesome, nbconvert, mccabe, pyopengl, cloudpickle, pygments,
-  spyder-kernels_0_5, qtpy, pyzmq, chardet, pyqtwebengine
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "spyder";
-  version = "3.3.6";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "spyder-ide";
-    repo = "spyder";
-    rev = "v3.3.6";
-    sha256 = "1sk9xajhzpklk5bcbdhpfhx3gxhyrahsmj9bv2m6kvbqxdlx6bq6";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    jedi pycodestyle psutil pyflakes rope pylint keyring numpydoc
-    qtconsole qtawesome nbconvert mccabe pyopengl cloudpickle spyder-kernels_0_5
-    pygments qtpy pyzmq chardet pyqtwebengine
-  ];
-
-  # tests fail with a segfault
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    # remove dependency on pyqtwebengine
-    # this is still part of the pyqt 5.13 version we have in nixpkgs
-    sed -i /pyqtwebengine/d setup.py
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace "pyqt5<5.13" "pyqt5"
-  '';
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "spyder" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Library providing a scientific python development environment";
-    longDescription = ''
-      Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a powerful interactive development
-      environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive
-      testing, debugging and introspection features.
-    '';
-    homepage = "https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ gebner marcus7070 ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 29913ff47bc0..ea4a6019518d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -8153,8 +8153,6 @@ in {
 
   spyder = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spyder { };
 
-  spyder_3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spyder/3.nix { };
-
   spyder-kernels = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spyder-kernels { };
 
   spyder-kernels_0_5 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spyder-kernels/0.x.nix { };