diff --git a/Modules/_xdrmodule.c b/Modules/_xdrmodule.c
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index 731bf347965..00000000000
--- a/Modules/_xdrmodule.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,187 +0,0 @@
-/* This module exports part of the C API to the XDR routines into Python.
- * XDR is Sun's eXternal Data Representation, as described in RFC 1014.
- * This module is used by xdrlib.py to support the float and double data
- * types which are too much of a pain to support in Python directly.  It is
- * not required by xdrlib.py -- when not available, these types aren't
- * supported at the Python layer.  Note that representations that can be
- * implemented solely in Python, are *not* reproduced here.
- *
- * Module version number: 1.0
- *
- * See xdrlib.py for usage notes.
- *
- * Note: this has so far, only been tested on Solaris 2.5 and IRIX 5.3.  On
- * these systems, you will need to link with -lnsl for these symbols to be
- * defined.
- */
-
-#include "Python.h"
-
-#include <rpc/rpc.h>
-#include <rpc/xdr.h>
-
-static PyObject* xdr_error;
-
-
-
-static PyObject*
-pack_float(self, args)
-        PyObject* self;
-        PyObject* args;
-{
-        XDR xdr;
-        float value;
-        union {                              /* guarantees proper alignment */
-                long dummy;
-                char buffer[4];
-        } addr;
-        PyObject* rtn = NULL;
-
-        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "f", &value))
-                return NULL;
-
-        xdr.x_ops = NULL;
-        xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 4, XDR_ENCODE);
-        if (xdr.x_ops == NULL)
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error,
-                                "XDR stream initialization failed.");
-        else if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
-                rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 4);
-        else
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from float failed");
-
-        xdr_destroy(&xdr);
-        return rtn;
-}
-    
-
-
-static PyObject*
-pack_double(self, args)
-        PyObject* self;
-        PyObject* args;
-{
-        XDR xdr;
-        double value;
-        union {                              /* guarantees proper alignment */
-                long dummy;
-                char buffer[8];
-        } addr;
-        PyObject* rtn = NULL;
-
-        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "d", &value))
-                return NULL;
-
-        xdr.x_ops = NULL;
-        xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 8, XDR_ENCODE);
-        if (xdr.x_ops == NULL)
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error,
-                                "XDR stream initialization failed.");
-        else if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
-                rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 8);
-        else
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from double failed");
-
-        xdr_destroy(&xdr);
-        return rtn;
-}
-
-
-
-static PyObject*
-unpack_float(self, args)
-        PyObject* self;
-        PyObject* args;
-{
-        XDR xdr;
-        float value;
-        char* string;
-        int strlen;
-        PyObject* rtn = NULL;
-
-        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
-                return NULL;
-
-        if (strlen != 4) {
-                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "4 byte string expected");
-                return NULL;
-        }
-
-        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
-        xdr.x_ops = NULL;
-        xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 4, XDR_DECODE);
-        if (xdr.x_ops == NULL)
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error,
-                                "XDR stream initialization failed.");
-        else if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
-                rtn = Py_BuildValue("f", value);
-        else
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to float failed");
-
-        xdr_destroy(&xdr);
-        return rtn;
-}
-
-    
-
-static PyObject*
-unpack_double(self, args)
-        PyObject* self;
-        PyObject* args;
-{
-        XDR xdr;
-        double value;
-        char* string;
-        int strlen;
-        PyObject* rtn = NULL;
-
-        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
-                return NULL;
-
-        if (strlen != 8) {
-                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "8 byte string expected");
-                return NULL;
-        }
-
-        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
-        xdr.x_ops = NULL;
-        xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 8, XDR_DECODE);
-        if (xdr.x_ops == NULL)
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error,
-                                "XDR stream initialization failed.");
-        else if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
-                rtn = Py_BuildValue("d", value);
-        else
-                PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to double failed");
-
-        xdr_destroy(&xdr);
-        return rtn;
-}
-
-
-
-static struct PyMethodDef
-xdr_methods[] = {
-        {"pack_float",    pack_float,    1},
-        {"pack_double",   pack_double,   1},
-        {"unpack_float",  unpack_float,  1},
-        {"unpack_double", unpack_double, 1},
-        {NULL,          NULL,       0}           /* sentinel */
-};
-
-
-
-void
-init_xdr()
-{
-        PyObject* module;
-        PyObject* dict;
-
-        module = Py_InitModule("_xdr", xdr_methods);
-        dict = PyModule_GetDict(module);
-
-        xdr_error = PyString_FromString("_xdr.error");
-        PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "error", xdr_error);
-        if (PyErr_Occurred())
-                Py_FatalError("can't initialize module _xdr");
-}