diff --git a/Doc/Makefile.deps b/Doc/Makefile.deps
index c973d34..1827ab3 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile.deps
+++ b/Doc/Makefile.deps
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@
 	lib/liburllib2.tex \
 	lib/libhttplib.tex \
 	lib/libftplib.tex \
-	lib/libgopherlib.tex \
 	lib/libnntplib.tex \
 	lib/liburlparse.tex \
 	lib/libhtmlparser.tex \
diff --git a/Doc/lib/lib.tex b/Doc/lib/lib.tex
index addf91c..30d05fa 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/lib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/lib.tex
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@
 \input{liburllib2}
 \input{libhttplib}
 \input{libftplib}
-\input{libgopherlib}
 \input{libpoplib}
 \input{libimaplib}
 \input{libnntplib}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b22605..0000000
--- a/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-\section{\module{gopherlib} ---
-         Gopher protocol client}
-
-\declaremodule{standard}{gopherlib}
-\modulesynopsis{Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).}
-
-\deprecated{2.5}{The \code{gopher} protocol is not in active use
-                 anymore.}
-
-\indexii{Gopher}{protocol}
-
-This module provides a minimal implementation of client side of the
-Gopher protocol.  It is used by the module \refmodule{urllib} to
-handle URLs that use the Gopher protocol.
-
-The module defines the following functions:
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{send_selector}{selector, host\optional{, port}}
-Send a \var{selector} string to the gopher server at \var{host} and
-\var{port} (default \code{70}).  Returns an open file object from
-which the returned document can be read.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-\begin{funcdesc}{send_query}{selector, query, host\optional{, port}}
-Send a \var{selector} string and a \var{query} string to a gopher
-server at \var{host} and \var{port} (default \code{70}).  Returns an
-open file object from which the returned document can be read.
-\end{funcdesc}
-
-Note that the data returned by the Gopher server can be of any type,
-depending on the first character of the selector string.  If the data
-is text (first character of the selector is \samp{0}), lines are
-terminated by CRLF, and the data is terminated by a line consisting of
-a single \samp{.}, and a leading \samp{.} should be stripped from
-lines that begin with \samp{..}.  Directory listings (first character
-of the selector is \samp{1}) are transferred using the same protocol.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
index 75ee310..77dfb8f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@
 
 The \function{urlopen()} function works transparently with proxies
 which do not require authentication.  In a \UNIX{} or Windows
-environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, \envvar{ftp_proxy} or
-\envvar{gopher_proxy} environment variables to a URL that identifies
+environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, or \envvar{ftp_proxy}
+environment variables to a URL that identifies
 the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter.  For example
 (the \character{\%} is the command prompt):
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
 \begin{classdesc}{URLopener}{\optional{proxies\optional{, **x509}}}
 Base class for opening and reading URLs.  Unless you need to support
 opening objects using schemes other than \file{http:}, \file{ftp:},
-\file{gopher:} or \file{file:}, you probably want to use
+or \file{file:}, you probably want to use
 \class{FancyURLopener}.
 
 By default, the \class{URLopener} class sends a
@@ -324,9 +324,8 @@
 
 \item
 Currently, only the following protocols are supported: HTTP, (versions
-0.9 and 1.0), Gopher (but not Gopher-+), FTP, and local files.
+0.9 and 1.0),  FTP, and local files.
 \indexii{HTTP}{protocol}
-\indexii{Gopher}{protocol}
 \indexii{FTP}{protocol}
 
 \item
@@ -355,9 +354,7 @@
 (such as an image), plain text or (for example) HTML\index{HTML}.  The
 HTTP\indexii{HTTP}{protocol} protocol provides type information in the
 reply header, which can be inspected by looking at the
-\mailheader{Content-Type} header.  For the
-Gopher\indexii{Gopher}{protocol} protocol, type information is encoded
-in the URL; there is currently no easy way to extract it.  If the
+\mailheader{Content-Type} header.  If the
 returned data is HTML, you can use the module
 \refmodule{htmllib}\refstmodindex{htmllib} to parse it.
 
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
index f6ff513..0df7385 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
@@ -86,11 +86,6 @@
 HTTP errors, such as requests for authentication.
 \end{excdesc}
 
-\begin{excdesc}{GopherError}
-A subclass of \exception{URLError}, this is the error raised by the
-Gopher handler.
-\end{excdesc}
-
 
 The following classes are provided:
 
@@ -241,10 +236,6 @@
 delays.
 \end{classdesc}
 
-\begin{classdesc}{GopherHandler}{}
-Open gopher URLs.
-\end{classdesc}
-
 \begin{classdesc}{UnknownHandler}{}
 A catch-all class to handle unknown URLs.
 \end{classdesc}
@@ -744,13 +735,6 @@
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 
-\subsection{GopherHandler Objects \label{gopher-handler}}
-
-\begin{methoddesc}[GopherHandler]{gopher_open}{req}
-Open the gopher resource indicated by \var{req}.
-\end{methoddesc}
-
-
 \subsection{UnknownHandler Objects \label{unknown-handler-objects}}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[UnknownHandler]{unknown_open}{}
diff --git a/Lib/gopherlib.py b/Lib/gopherlib.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d789161..0000000
--- a/Lib/gopherlib.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,209 +0,0 @@
-"""Gopher protocol client interface."""
-
-__all__ = ["send_selector","send_query"]
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn("the gopherlib module is deprecated", DeprecationWarning,
-              stacklevel=2)
-
-# Default selector, host and port
-DEF_SELECTOR = '1/'
-DEF_HOST     = 'gopher.micro.umn.edu'
-DEF_PORT     = 70
-
-# Recognized file types
-A_TEXT       = '0'
-A_MENU       = '1'
-A_CSO        = '2'
-A_ERROR      = '3'
-A_MACBINHEX  = '4'
-A_PCBINHEX   = '5'
-A_UUENCODED  = '6'
-A_INDEX      = '7'
-A_TELNET     = '8'
-A_BINARY     = '9'
-A_DUPLICATE  = '+'
-A_SOUND      = 's'
-A_EVENT      = 'e'
-A_CALENDAR   = 'c'
-A_HTML       = 'h'
-A_TN3270     = 'T'
-A_MIME       = 'M'
-A_IMAGE      = 'I'
-A_WHOIS      = 'w'
-A_QUERY      = 'q'
-A_GIF        = 'g'
-A_HTML       = 'h'          # HTML file
-A_WWW        = 'w'          # WWW address
-A_PLUS_IMAGE = ':'
-A_PLUS_MOVIE = ';'
-A_PLUS_SOUND = '<'
-
-
-_names = dir()
-_type_to_name_map = {}
-def type_to_name(gtype):
-    """Map all file types to strings; unknown types become TYPE='x'."""
-    global _type_to_name_map
-    if _type_to_name_map=={}:
-        for name in _names:
-            if name[:2] == 'A_':
-                _type_to_name_map[eval(name)] = name[2:]
-    if gtype in _type_to_name_map:
-        return _type_to_name_map[gtype]
-    return 'TYPE=%r' % (gtype,)
-
-# Names for characters and strings
-CRLF = '\r\n'
-TAB = '\t'
-
-def send_selector(selector, host, port = 0):
-    """Send a selector to a given host and port, return a file with the reply."""
-    import socket
-    if not port:
-        i = host.find(':')
-        if i >= 0:
-            host, port = host[:i], int(host[i+1:])
-    if not port:
-        port = DEF_PORT
-    elif type(port) == type(''):
-        port = int(port)
-    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-    s.connect((host, port))
-    s.sendall(selector + CRLF)
-    s.shutdown(1)
-    return s.makefile('rb')
-
-def send_query(selector, query, host, port = 0):
-    """Send a selector and a query string."""
-    return send_selector(selector + '\t' + query, host, port)
-
-def path_to_selector(path):
-    """Takes a path as returned by urlparse and returns the appropriate selector."""
-    if path=="/":
-        return "/"
-    else:
-        return path[2:] # Cuts initial slash and data type identifier
-
-def path_to_datatype_name(path):
-    """Takes a path as returned by urlparse and maps it to a string.
-    See section 3.4 of RFC 1738 for details."""
-    if path=="/":
-        # No way to tell, although "INDEX" is likely
-        return "TYPE='unknown'"
-    else:
-        return type_to_name(path[1])
-
-# The following functions interpret the data returned by the gopher
-# server according to the expected type, e.g. textfile or directory
-
-def get_directory(f):
-    """Get a directory in the form of a list of entries."""
-    entries = []
-    while 1:
-        line = f.readline()
-        if not line:
-            print '(Unexpected EOF from server)'
-            break
-        if line[-2:] == CRLF:
-            line = line[:-2]
-        elif line[-1:] in CRLF:
-            line = line[:-1]
-        if line == '.':
-            break
-        if not line:
-            print '(Empty line from server)'
-            continue
-        gtype = line[0]
-        parts = line[1:].split(TAB)
-        if len(parts) < 4:
-            print '(Bad line from server: %r)' % (line,)
-            continue
-        if len(parts) > 4:
-            if parts[4:] != ['+']:
-                print '(Extra info from server:',
-                print parts[4:], ')'
-        else:
-            parts.append('')
-        parts.insert(0, gtype)
-        entries.append(parts)
-    return entries
-
-def get_textfile(f):
-    """Get a text file as a list of lines, with trailing CRLF stripped."""
-    lines = []
-    get_alt_textfile(f, lines.append)
-    return lines
-
-def get_alt_textfile(f, func):
-    """Get a text file and pass each line to a function, with trailing CRLF stripped."""
-    while 1:
-        line = f.readline()
-        if not line:
-            print '(Unexpected EOF from server)'
-            break
-        if line[-2:] == CRLF:
-            line = line[:-2]
-        elif line[-1:] in CRLF:
-            line = line[:-1]
-        if line == '.':
-            break
-        if line[:2] == '..':
-            line = line[1:]
-        func(line)
-
-def get_binary(f):
-    """Get a binary file as one solid data block."""
-    data = f.read()
-    return data
-
-def get_alt_binary(f, func, blocksize):
-    """Get a binary file and pass each block to a function."""
-    while 1:
-        data = f.read(blocksize)
-        if not data:
-            break
-        func(data)
-
-def test():
-    """Trivial test program."""
-    import sys
-    import getopt
-    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], '')
-    selector = DEF_SELECTOR
-    type = selector[0]
-    host = DEF_HOST
-    if args:
-        host = args[0]
-        args = args[1:]
-    if args:
-        type = args[0]
-        args = args[1:]
-        if len(type) > 1:
-            type, selector = type[0], type
-        else:
-            selector = ''
-            if args:
-                selector = args[0]
-                args = args[1:]
-        query = ''
-        if args:
-            query = args[0]
-            args = args[1:]
-    if type == A_INDEX:
-        f = send_query(selector, query, host)
-    else:
-        f = send_selector(selector, host)
-    if type == A_TEXT:
-        lines = get_textfile(f)
-        for item in lines: print item
-    elif type in (A_MENU, A_INDEX):
-        entries = get_directory(f)
-        for item in entries: print item
-    else:
-        data = get_binary(f)
-        print 'binary data:', len(data), 'bytes:', repr(data[:100])[:40]
-
-# Run the test when run as script
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test___all__.py b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
index 2b9f1de..14795a6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test___all__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 import sys
 import warnings
 
-warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",
-                        "the gopherlib module is deprecated",
-                        DeprecationWarning,
-                        "<string>")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the sets module is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, "<string>")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", ".*popen2 module is deprecated.*",
@@ -84,7 +80,6 @@
         self.check_all("getpass")
         self.check_all("gettext")
         self.check_all("glob")
-        self.check_all("gopherlib")
         self.check_all("gzip")
         self.check_all("heapq")
         self.check_all("htmllib")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sundry.py b/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
index f19467c..42ee257 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', r".*posixfile module",
                         DeprecationWarning, 'posixfile$')
 
-warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",
-                        "the gopherlib module is deprecated",
-                        DeprecationWarning,
-                        ".*test_sundry")
-
 from test.test_support import verbose
 
 import BaseHTTPServer
@@ -27,7 +22,6 @@
 import formatter
 import ftplib
 import getpass
-import gopherlib
 import htmlentitydefs
 import ihooks
 import imghdr
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index 888a738..e76301e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -173,19 +173,6 @@
             ]
         self._test_urls(urls, self._extra_handlers())
 
-    def test_gopher(self):
-        import warnings
-        warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",
-                                "the gopherlib module is deprecated",
-                                DeprecationWarning,
-                                "urllib2$")
-        urls = [
-            # Thanks to Fred for finding these!
-            'gopher://gopher.lib.ncsu.edu./11/library/stacks/Alex',
-            'gopher://gopher.vt.edu.:10010/10/33',
-            ]
-        self._test_urls(urls, self._extra_handlers())
-
     def test_file(self):
         TESTFN = test_support.TESTFN
         f = open(TESTFN, 'w')
@@ -274,8 +261,6 @@
     def _extra_handlers(self):
         handlers = []
 
-        handlers.append(urllib2.GopherHandler)
-
         cfh = urllib2.CacheFTPHandler()
         cfh.setTimeout(1)
         handlers.append(cfh)
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 7b2f1f7..cecfbb0 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
            "localhost", "thishost", "ftperrors", "basejoin", "unwrap",
            "splittype", "splithost", "splituser", "splitpasswd", "splitport",
            "splitnport", "splitquery", "splitattr", "splitvalue",
-           "splitgophertype", "getproxies"]
+           "getproxies"]
 
 __version__ = '1.17'    # XXX This version is not always updated :-(
 
@@ -433,24 +433,6 @@
                     return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers,
                                            data)
 
-    def open_gopher(self, url):
-        """Use Gopher protocol."""
-        if not isinstance(url, str):
-            raise IOError, ('gopher error', 'proxy support for gopher protocol currently not implemented')
-        import gopherlib
-        host, selector = splithost(url)
-        if not host: raise IOError, ('gopher error', 'no host given')
-        host = unquote(host)
-        type, selector = splitgophertype(selector)
-        selector, query = splitquery(selector)
-        selector = unquote(selector)
-        if query:
-            query = unquote(query)
-            fp = gopherlib.send_query(selector, query, host)
-        else:
-            fp = gopherlib.send_selector(selector, host)
-        return addinfourl(fp, noheaders(), "gopher:" + url)
-
     def open_file(self, url):
         """Use local file or FTP depending on form of URL."""
         if not isinstance(url, str):
@@ -981,7 +963,6 @@
 # splitattr('/path;attr1=value1;attr2=value2;...') ->
 #   '/path', ['attr1=value1', 'attr2=value2', ...]
 # splitvalue('attr=value') --> 'attr', 'value'
-# splitgophertype('/Xselector') --> 'X', 'selector'
 # unquote('abc%20def') -> 'abc def'
 # quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def')
 
@@ -1141,12 +1122,6 @@
     if match: return match.group(1, 2)
     return attr, None
 
-def splitgophertype(selector):
-    """splitgophertype('/Xselector') --> 'X', 'selector'."""
-    if selector[:1] == '/' and selector[1:2]:
-        return selector[1], selector[2:]
-    return None, selector
-
 _hextochr = dict(('%02x' % i, chr(i)) for i in range(256))
 _hextochr.update(('%02X' % i, chr(i)) for i in range(256))
 
@@ -1482,7 +1457,6 @@
             'file:/etc/passwd',
             'file://localhost/etc/passwd',
             'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/README',
-##          'gopher://gopher.micro.umn.edu/1/',
             'http://www.python.org/index.html',
             ]
         if hasattr(URLopener, "open_https"):
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 6bfbc29..fe32b2d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     from StringIO import StringIO
 
 from urllib import (unwrap, unquote, splittype, splithost, quote,
-     addinfourl, splitport, splitgophertype, splitquery,
+     addinfourl, splitport, splitquery,
      splitattr, ftpwrapper, noheaders, splituser, splitpasswd, splitvalue)
 
 # support for FileHandler, proxies via environment variables
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@
     def __str__(self):
         return 'HTTP Error %s: %s' % (self.code, self.msg)
 
-class GopherError(URLError):
-    pass
-
 # copied from cookielib.py
 _cut_port_re = re.compile(r":\d+$")
 def request_host(request):
@@ -1342,22 +1339,3 @@
                     del self.timeout[k]
                     break
             self.soonest = min(self.timeout.values())
-
-class GopherHandler(BaseHandler):
-    def gopher_open(self, req):
-        # XXX can raise socket.error
-        import gopherlib  # this raises DeprecationWarning in 2.5
-        host = req.get_host()
-        if not host:
-            raise GopherError('no host given')
-        host = unquote(host)
-        selector = req.get_selector()
-        type, selector = splitgophertype(selector)
-        selector, query = splitquery(selector)
-        selector = unquote(selector)
-        if query:
-            query = unquote(query)
-            fp = gopherlib.send_query(selector, query, host)
-        else:
-            fp = gopherlib.send_selector(selector, host)
-        return addinfourl(fp, noheaders(), req.get_full_url())
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eefa181..fabd5f4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Remove the gopherlib module.  This also leads to the removal of gopher
+  support in urllib/urllib2.
+
 - Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
   lack of an infinite recursion check.