diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 232b83a5644..abc3386ff4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1287,36 +1287,8 @@ in {
 
   };
 
-  argparse = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "argparse-1.4.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/a/argparse/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1r6nznp64j68ih1k537wms7h57nvppq0szmwsaf99n71bfjqkc32";
-    };
-
-    checkPhase = ''
-      export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`/build/lib:$PYTHONPATH
-      ${python.interpreter} test/test_argparse.py
-    '';
-
-    # ordering issues in tests
-    doCheck = !isPy3k;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://code.google.com/p/argparse/;
-      license = licenses.asl20;
-      description = "argparse: Python command line parser";
-      longDescription = ''
-        The argparse module makes writing command line tools in Python
-        easy.  Just briefly describe your command line interface and
-        argparse will take care of the rest, including: parsing the
-        arguments and flags from sys.argv, converting arg strings into
-        objects for your program, formatting and printing any help
-        messages, and much more.
-      '';
-    };
-  });
+  # argparse is part of stdlib in 2.7 and 3.2+
+  argparse = null;
 
   astroid = callPackage ../development/python-modules/astroid { };