diff --git a/mercurial/util.h b/mercurial/util.h
index d1bd0fd07ee6adf4ab3be2b0a0a7c0df54d55abf_bWVyY3VyaWFsL3V0aWwuaA==..14bf7679fb68b66bb319241b2653e6e95d87e0c6_bWVyY3VyaWFsL3V0aWwuaA== 100644
--- a/mercurial/util.h
+++ b/mercurial/util.h
@@ -57,50 +57,6 @@
 
 #endif /* PY_MAJOR_VERSION */
 
-/* Backports from 2.6 */
-#if PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02060000
-
-#define Py_TYPE(ob) (ob)->ob_type
-#define Py_SIZE(ob) (ob)->ob_size
-#define PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(type, size) PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type) size,
-
-/* Shamelessly stolen from bytesobject.h */
-#define PyBytesObject PyStringObject
-#define PyBytes_Type PyString_Type
-
-#define PyBytes_Check PyString_Check
-#define PyBytes_CheckExact PyString_CheckExact
-#define PyBytes_CHECK_INTERNED PyString_CHECK_INTERNED
-#define PyBytes_AS_STRING PyString_AS_STRING
-#define PyBytes_GET_SIZE PyString_GET_SIZE
-#define Py_TPFLAGS_BYTES_SUBCLASS Py_TPFLAGS_STRING_SUBCLASS
-
-#define PyBytes_FromStringAndSize PyString_FromStringAndSize
-#define PyBytes_FromString PyString_FromString
-#define PyBytes_FromFormatV PyString_FromFormatV
-#define PyBytes_FromFormat PyString_FromFormat
-#define PyBytes_Size PyString_Size
-#define PyBytes_AsString PyString_AsString
-#define PyBytes_Repr PyString_Repr
-#define PyBytes_Concat PyString_Concat
-#define PyBytes_ConcatAndDel PyString_ConcatAndDel
-#define _PyBytes_Resize _PyString_Resize
-#define _PyBytes_Eq _PyString_Eq
-#define PyBytes_Format PyString_Format
-#define _PyBytes_FormatLong _PyString_FormatLong
-#define PyBytes_DecodeEscape PyString_DecodeEscape
-#define _PyBytes_Join _PyString_Join
-#define PyBytes_Decode PyString_Decode
-#define PyBytes_Encode PyString_Encode
-#define PyBytes_AsEncodedObject PyString_AsEncodedObject
-#define PyBytes_AsEncodedString PyString_AsEncodedString
-#define PyBytes_AsDecodedObject PyString_AsDecodedObject
-#define PyBytes_AsDecodedString PyString_AsDecodedString
-#define PyBytes_AsStringAndSize PyString_AsStringAndSize
-#define _PyBytes_InsertThousandsGrouping _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping
-
-#endif /* PY_VERSION_HEX */
-
 #ifdef _WIN32
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 /* msvc 6.0 has problems */