diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/0.17.1.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/0.17.1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c481aa0dfea7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/0.17.1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-{ buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, stdenv
-, pytest
-, glibcLocales
-, cython
-, dateutil
-, scipy
-, numexpr
-, pytz
-, xlrd
-, bottleneck
-, sqlalchemy
-, lxml
-, html5lib
-, beautifulsoup4
-, openpyxl
-, tables
-, xlwt
-, libcxx ? null
-}:
-
-let
-  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionalString;
-  inherit (stdenv) isDarwin;
-in buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pandas";
-  version = "0.17.1";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "cfd7214a7223703fe6999fbe34837749540efee1c985e6aee9933f30e3f72837";
-  };
-
-  LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8";
-  buildInputs = [ pytest glibcLocales ] ++ optional isDarwin libcxx;
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    cython
-    dateutil
-    scipy
-    numexpr
-    pytz
-    xlrd
-    bottleneck
-    sqlalchemy
-    lxml
-    html5lib
-    beautifulsoup4
-    openpyxl
-    tables
-    xlwt
-  ];
-
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  # For OSX, we need to add a dependency on libcxx, which provides
-  # `complex.h` and other libraries that pandas depends on to build.
-  postPatch = optionalString isDarwin ''
-    cpp_sdk="${libcxx}/include/c++/v1";
-    echo "Adding $cpp_sdk to the setup.py common_include variable"
-    substituteInPlace setup.py \
-      --replace "['pandas/src/klib', 'pandas/src']" \
-                "['pandas/src/klib', 'pandas/src', '$cpp_sdk']"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    # https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/14866
-    # pandas devs are no longer testing i686 so safer to assume it's broken
-    broken = stdenv.isi686;
-    homepage = http://pandas.pydata.org/;
-    description = "Python Data Analysis Library";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ shlevy ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 80f7b5df8a71..58ce6330ede2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3357,8 +3357,6 @@ in {
 
   pandas = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pandas { };
 
-  pandas_0_17_1 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pandas/0.17.1.nix { };
-
   xlrd = callPackage ../development/python-modules/xlrd { };
 
   bottleneck = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bottleneck { };