diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index a5cb4e30616..23e28aa4fd8 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -480,6 +480,11 @@ Removed
   into their code.
   (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Terry J. Reedy in :issue:`42299`.)
 
+* Removed the :c:func:`PyModule_GetWarningsModule` function that was useless
+  now due to the _warnings module was converted to a builtin module in 2.6.
+  (Contributed by Hai Shi in :issue:`42599`.)
+
+
 Porting to Python 3.10
 ======================
 
diff --git a/Python/errors.c b/Python/errors.c
index 8242ac69785..213108f681b 100644
--- a/Python/errors.c
+++ b/Python/errors.c
@@ -1534,9 +1534,6 @@ PyErr_WriteUnraisable(PyObject *obj)
 }
 
 
-extern PyObject *PyModule_GetWarningsModule(void);
-
-
 void
 PyErr_SyntaxLocation(const char *filename, int lineno)
 {
diff --git a/Python/pylifecycle.c b/Python/pylifecycle.c
index 428c887ef41..70824ff6741 100644
--- a/Python/pylifecycle.c
+++ b/Python/pylifecycle.c
@@ -97,14 +97,6 @@ _Py_IsFinalizing(void)
 int (*_PyOS_mystrnicmp_hack)(const char *, const char *, Py_ssize_t) = \
     PyOS_mystrnicmp; /* Python/pystrcmp.o */
 
-/* PyModule_GetWarningsModule is no longer necessary as of 2.6
-since _warnings is builtin.  This API should not be used. */
-PyObject *
-PyModule_GetWarningsModule(void)
-{
-    return PyImport_ImportModule("warnings");
-}
-
 
 /* APIs to access the initialization flags
  *