diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/backports_weakref/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/backports_weakref/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a0ef0b43203..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/backports_weakref/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, setuptools-scm
-# , backports
-, unittestCheckHook
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "backports.weakref";
-  version = "1.0.post1";
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "bc4170a29915f8b22c9e7c4939701859650f2eb84184aee80da329ac0b9825c2";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ setuptools-scm ];
-#   nativeCheckInputs = [ backports ];
-
-  # Requires backports package
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ unittestCheckHook ];
-
-  unittestFlagsArray = [ "tests" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Backports of new features in Python’s weakref module";
-    license = licenses.psfl;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jyp ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
index fbedcae3cc56..0fc684b83c87 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 , wheel
 , jax
 , opt-einsum
-, backports_weakref
 , tensorflow-estimator-bin
 , tensorboard
 , config
@@ -83,8 +82,7 @@ in buildPythonPackage {
     keras-applications
     keras-preprocessing
     h5py
-  ] ++ lib.optional (!isPy3k) mock
-    ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.4") [ backports_weakref ];
+  ] ++ lib.optional (!isPy3k) mock;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ wheel ] ++ lib.optionals cudaSupport [ addOpenGLRunpath ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index bc61bdca3f3d..e4719eddde87 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   backports_functools_lru_cache = throw "backports_functools_lru_cache has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.2"; # added 2023-07-28
   backports_tempfile = throw "backports_tempfile has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.3"; # added 2023-07-28
   backports_unittest-mock = throw "backports_unittest-mock has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.2"; # added 2023-07-28
+  backports_weakref = throw "backports_weakref has been removed, since we no longer need to backport to python3.3"; # added 2023-07-28
   bedup = throw "bedup was removed because it was broken and abandoned upstream"; # added 2023-02-04
   bitcoin-price-api = throw "bitcoin-price-api has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feautre, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2022-02-15
   BlinkStick = blinkstick; # added 2023-02-19
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0c7021a45ef1..8710fbac8ae1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1207,8 +1207,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   backports-shutil-which = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backports-shutil-which { };
 
-  backports_weakref = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backports_weakref { };
-
   backports-zoneinfo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backports-zoneinfo { };
 
   bacpypes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bacpypes { };