diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/2.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/2.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ce4ffc0f816..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydocstyle/2.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, isPy3k, pythonOlder
-, snowballstemmer, six, configparser
-, pytest, mock, pathlib }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pydocstyle";
-  version = "2.1.1";
-
-  # no tests on PyPI
-  # https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle/issues/302
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "PyCQA";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1h0k8lpx14svc8dini62j0kqiam10pck5sdzvxa4xhsx7y689g5l";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ snowballstemmer six ] ++ lib.optional (!isPy3k) configparser;
-
-  checkInputs = [ pytest mock ] ++ lib.optional (pythonOlder "3.4") pathlib;
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    # test_integration.py installs packages via pip
-    py.test --cache-clear -vv src/tests -k "not test_integration"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Python docstring style checker";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle/";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dzabraev ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
index d96d5a4252f7..e62803108071 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
@@ -438,8 +438,6 @@ with self; with super; {
 
   pydns = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydns { };
 
-  pydocstyle = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydocstyle/2.nix { };
-
   pyechonest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyechonest { };
 
   pyexcelerator = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyexcelerator { };