diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/doctest-ignore-unicode/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/doctest-ignore-unicode/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ca439d9dcb6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/doctest-ignore-unicode/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, nose }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "doctest-ignore-unicode";
-  version = "0.1.2";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "1m9aa4qnyj21lbq4sbvmv1vcz7zksss4rz37ddf2hxv4hk8b547w";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ nose ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Add flag to ignore unicode literal prefixes in doctests";
-    license = with licenses; [ asl20 ];
-    homepage = "https://github.com/gnublade/doctest-ignore-unicode";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index c5fbe6751b0f..0ecfbff848ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   django_treebeard = django-treebeard; # added 2023-07-25
   dns = dnspython; # added 2017-12-10
   docker_pycreds = docker-pycreds; # added 2024-01-03
+  doctest-ignore-unicode = throw "doctest-ignore-unicode has been removed since it has been unmaintained for 11 years"; # added 2024-05-20
   dogpile_cache = dogpile-cache; # added 2021-10-28
   dogpile-core = throw "dogpile-core is no longer maintained, use dogpile-cache instead"; # added 2021-11-20
   eebrightbox = throw "eebrightbox is unmaintained upstream and has therefore been removed"; # added 2022-02-03
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b3ce270d0442..bf7c81ccf94f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3490,8 +3490,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   docrep = callPackage ../development/python-modules/docrep { };
 
-  doctest-ignore-unicode = callPackage ../development/python-modules/doctest-ignore-unicode { };
-
   docutils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/docutils { };
 
   docx2python = callPackage ../development/python-modules/docx2python { };