diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/macvim.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/macvim.nix
index f5b79ecdb01e..8440d1fd6d9c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/macvim.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/macvim.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 , perl
 , luajit
 , darwin
-, python37
+, python3
 }:
 
 let
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config buildSymlinks ];
   buildInputs = [
-    gettext ncurses cscope luajit ruby tcl perl python37
+    gettext ncurses cscope luajit ruby tcl perl python3
   ];
 
   patches = [ ./macvim.patch ];
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       "--without-local-dir"
       "--with-luajit"
       "--with-lua-prefix=${luajit}"
-      "--with-python3-command=${python37}/bin/python3"
+      "--with-python3-command=${python3}/bin/python3"
       "--with-ruby-command=${ruby}/bin/ruby"
       "--with-tclsh=${tcl}/bin/tclsh"
       "--with-tlib=ncurses"
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     libperl=$(dirname $(find ${perl} -name "libperl.dylib"))
     install_name_tool -add_rpath ${luajit}/lib $exe
     install_name_tool -add_rpath ${tcl}/lib $exe
-    install_name_tool -add_rpath ${python37}/lib $exe
+    install_name_tool -add_rpath ${python3}/lib $exe
     install_name_tool -add_rpath $libperl $exe
     install_name_tool -add_rpath ${ruby}/lib $exe
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-html.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-html.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e399aa52fcd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-html.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated and will be overwritten by ./generate.sh
-
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, lib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "python37-docs-html";
-  version = "3.7.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/${version}/python-${version}-docs-html.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "19wbrawpdam09fmyipfy92sxwn1rl93v8jkfqsfx028qhvzf0422";
-  };
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/doc/python37
-    cp -R ./ $out/share/doc/python37/html
-  '';
-  meta = {
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-a4.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-a4.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9879a26be525..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-a4.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated and will be overwritten by ./generate.sh
-
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, lib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "python37-docs-pdf-a4";
-  version = "3.7.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/${version}/python-${version}-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0vdx762m30hjaabn6w88awcj2qpbz0b6z59zn9wmamd35k59lfba";
-  };
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/doc/python37
-    cp -R ./ $out/share/doc/python37/pdf-a4
-  '';
-  meta = {
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-letter.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-letter.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c58c45776e7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-pdf-letter.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated and will be overwritten by ./generate.sh
-
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, lib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "python37-docs-pdf-letter";
-  version = "3.7.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/${version}/python-${version}-docs-pdf-letter.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "17g57vlyvqx0k916q84q2pcx7y8myw0fda9fvg9kh0ph930c837x";
-  };
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/doc/python37
-    cp -R ./ $out/share/doc/python37/pdf-letter
-  '';
-  meta = {
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-text.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-text.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 641e4913f65a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/docs/3.7-text.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated and will be overwritten by ./generate.sh
-
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, lib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "python37-docs-text";
-  version = "3.7.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/${version}/python-${version}-docs-text.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0h50rlr8jclwfxa106b42q2vn2ynp219c4zsy5qz65n5m3b7y1g2";
-  };
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/doc/python37
-    cp -R ./ $out/share/doc/python37/text
-  '';
-  meta = {
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}