diff --git a/scripts/download_wheels.py b/scripts/download_wheels.py
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index 3d36eed2d888a..0000000000000
--- a/scripts/download_wheels.py
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@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""Fetch wheels from wheels.scipy.org for a pandas version."""
-import argparse
-import pathlib
-import sys
-import urllib.parse
-import urllib.request
-
-from lxml import html
-
-
-def parse_args(args=None):
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
-    parser.add_argument("version", type=str, help="Pandas version (0.23.0)")
-    return parser.parse_args(args)
-
-
-def fetch(version):
-    base = "http://wheels.scipy.org"
-    tree = html.parse(base)
-    root = tree.getroot()
-
-    dest = pathlib.Path("dist")
-    dest.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
-
-    files = [
-        x
-        for x in root.xpath("//a/text()")
-        if x.startswith(f"pandas-{version}") and not dest.joinpath(x).exists()
-    ]
-
-    N = len(files)
-
-    for i, filename in enumerate(files, 1):
-        out = str(dest.joinpath(filename))
-        link = urllib.request.urljoin(base, filename)
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(link, out)
-        print(f"Downloaded {link} to {out} [{i}/{N}]")
-
-
-def main(args=None):
-    args = parse_args(args)
-    fetch(args.version)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main())